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Carshalton Ponds and the Leoni Bridge

Park · Carshalton, England

Carshalton Ponds are two adjoining spring-fed ponds in the centre of Carshalton village, either side of North Street off the High Street, SM5 3AL, and one of the sources of the River Wandle. The Leoni Bridge over the eastern pond is listed Grade II as NHLE 1065681. The ponds are open public space, inside the Carshalton Village Conservation Area, designated by the London Borough of Sutton; conservation areas carry no list entry number.

History

The Leoni Bridge was listed Grade II on 16 March 1954 as list entry 1065681, under the entry name "The Leoni Bridge. North retaining wall of the pond to the east of North Street" and the statutory address "High Street". The pond walls and culverts carry their own entries: the south-east culvert and the south and east retaining walls of the pond east of North Street, Grade II, NHLE 1065680, and the road bridge, embankment retaining walls and railings of the pond west of North Street, Grade II, NHLE 1300556. Anne Boleyn's Well, the spring beside All Saints Church, is Grade II, NHLE 1065668; the story that the spring rose where Anne Boleyn's horse kicked a stone is folklore, and scholars suggest the name is a corruption of Boulogne, after the Counts of Boulogne who held land here in the twelfth century. Carshalton station is 450 m away.

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High Street, Carshalton SM5 3AL

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