Past Preservation

By the 1950's the original pond had silted up quite badly.
Traction engines were used to dredge the pond. However this was not completed owing to the retaining bank wall (with the sluice in) moving with the disturbance.  To try and stabilise the bank trees were planted along it. The Sluice was replaced at the same time and the water level maintained about 5" higher than at present.

By 1970 the pond was becoming polluted and fish dying so the two streams that fed it - from Baconsthorpe and Bodham, were diverted around the south side of the pond. Since that time it has been entirely spring fed and is recorded as having some of the purest pond water in the country.