I'm off into Wakefeld for lunch today, so thought that I would take the opportunity to have a drone adventure to have a closer look at Dame Mary Bolle's water tower.

I noticed it when I had my first drone adventure at Heath Common and have since done some Googling to find out more.

Dating to C17, this five-stage, square water tower was originally associated with the now demolished Heath Old Hall. Some high-level repairs were carried out in 1980s but low-level masonry and interior are in poor condition.

https://historicengland.org.uk/advice/heritage-at-risk/search-register/list-entry/181004

Dame Mary Bolles was born in the reign of Elizabeth I and died, aged 81, in  1662, in the reign of Charles II. She remains the only woman to have been awarded a baronetcy, in her case the Baronetcy of Nova Scotia, bestowed on her by Charles I in 1635.

She’s probably best known in Wakefield for the Water Tower, which she had constructed to pump a water supply up to Heath Old Hall. There are suggestions that it also supplied Heath Village and possibly an ironworks.

Dame Bolle's Water Tower Location

The Tower is located just outside Wakefield near Heath Common (The village of mansions - See my Drone Adventure about this)