Memories of Fishponds

historybuff, yesterday, said:

Fishponds is, comparatively, a modern village. It takes its name from some ponds which were formerly near the railway station. Formerly it consisted of only a few huts or small cottages built near to some stone quarries, and inhabited by the quarrymen who were employed in that business.

Fishponds has grown into a large and important neighbourhood. A small brook takes its rise on the western slope of Lodge Hill, at the head of a valley that runs on and deepens until it gets to Dog's Kennel, on the river Froom. Across this valley formerly two dams were thrown, forming it into a lake, or rather two sheets of water, near the old rabbit burrow.

The main road, near the Full Moon Hotel passed between these two ponds. Dr. George Bompas partly filled up the upper pond; and it is now drained, and forms part of the grounds of Mr. A. Robinson. The lower pond also was filled up by order of the Duchess of Beaufort after a child had fallen in it and was drowned.

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