Stort Navigation
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The Stort Navigation is the canalised section of the River Stort running 22 kilometres from the town of Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, downstream to its confluence with the Lee Navigation at Feild
The navigation approaching Roydon lock
Sheering Mill lock
Parndon Mill dates from the 19th century, and used both water and steam power.
Rye House, Hertfordshire
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Rye House in Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire is a former fortified manor house, located in what is now the Lee Valley Regional Park. The 15th-century gatehouse is the surviving part of the structure and is a
The gatehouse of Rye House, the only surviving part of the manor house
The moat and gatehouse
Engraving from 1777, showing the gatehouse brickwork before restoration. By 1795 some of this brickwork had gone.
View from the road (1777 engraving), facing south-west