Langford Pumping Station was built by T and C Hawksley in 1927,
and opened in 1929. It continued pumping fresh (treated) water
using steam engines until 1963, when electric pumps took over. It
is designed to extract water from the Rivers Chelmer, Ter and
Blackwater, the three inflows merge in a small settling reservoir,
where sediment is naturally deposited, and then pumped for
treatment, and again to a storage reservoir.
Two of the three engines and the boilers and coaling plant were
scrapped in 1964, and the octagonal chimney was demolished. One
engine and pump set has been preserved. The engine, built by the
Lilleshall Company of Oakengates in Shropshire, is a
triple-expansion steam engine built in 1927 and numbered 282. The
pump house buildings and the remaining engine were declared
Scheduled Ancient Monuments in 1986.