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The American Museum and Gardens is based at Claverton Manor, near Bath, England. The manor house, believed to be the third manor house constructed at Claverton, was designed for John Vivian, a barrister who had purchased the manor in 1816, by Jeffry Wyatville in 1820 and built on the site of a manor previously bought by Ralph Allen in 1758. Wyatville's construction replaced an earlier manor house built for Sir Edward Hungerford in c.1588, the design of which has been attributed to John of Padua. The first manor house at Claverton was built by Ralph of Shrewsbury around 1340. The current manor house, built in 1820, is now a Grade I listed building.
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  • 1. Claverton Pumping Station Claverton
    Claverton Pumping Station in the village of Claverton, in the English county of Somerset, pumps water from the River Avon to the Kennet and Avon Canal using power from the flow of the River Avon. It is a grade II listed building.The pumping station was built by John Rennie between 1809 and 1813 to overcome water supply problems on the canal. It uses a 24-foot wide wooden breastshot water wheel to drive two Boulton and Watt 18-foot long cast iron rocking beams, which power lift pumps to raise water 48 feet up to the canal. The pumping station has undergone several modifications since its initial construction, including revising the wheel into two sections each 12 feet wide separated by a 9-inch gap. The station's operational life ended in 1952, by which time its maintenance and repair had b...
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