Westgate Water Tower was constructed after the City of Lincoln experienced a typhoid epidemic between 1904 and 1905, one of the last to occur in England. Starved of infrastructure investment for years and unable to get water up Steep Hill, there was a water shortage within the city and inhabitants had even taken to using traditional medieval and Roman era wells within the city wall.
The architect, Reginald Bloomfield, designed Westgate Water Tower with the proximity to Lincoln Castle in mind, and thus penned it to resemble that of a Norman castle keep.
To supply the tower a 22 mile long pipe was laid from Elkesley. The water tower has a capacity of approximately 1.5 million litres and continues to be used today for Uphill Lincoln.
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