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The Coppermill and Coppermill Tower

Historic site · Walthamstow, England

The Coppermill stands on Coppermill Lane, E17 7HQ, inside Walthamstow Wetlands, and the path from the Engine House runs to it. It is listed Grade II as NHLE 1065618 under the statutory name 'The Coppermills (Waterboard Stores)', and the entry describes the later Italianate tower attached to the north of the main block, so the tower carries no separate list entry. The building is still an operational hub for Thames Water, and the tower opens to visitors only on scheduled climbs run by the reserve.

History

The mill ground corn in the fourteenth century, made paper from 1659 to 1703 and leather in the 1700s, and worked as an oil mill until 1806, when it was rebuilt. The British Copper Company bought it in 1808 and rolled copper for penny and halfpenny coin blanks; copper production ceased in 1857, the East London Waterworks Company bought the site in 1859, and the Italianate tower was added in 1864, five years after that takeover. The Grade II listing was made on 19 October 1951 as list entry 1065618 and amended on 15 September 1987, at grid reference TQ 35080 88296; the entry dates the building 1806. The Coppermills Water Treatment Works alongside is a modern Thames Water plant and is not the listed structure.

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Coppermill Lane, Walthamstow, London E17 7HQ

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