Description:A view of the pumping station's main buildings and chimney by the A460, Hednesford to Rugeley Road and the railway line between Rugeley, Hednesford, Cannock and Walsall.
The pumping station was built and used by the South Staffordshire Water Company in the mid to late 1850s. In front of the Main Building are the steam operated beam pumping engines and chimney. Below the building was an 18 feet in diameter red brick-lined well, from which 6 feet square heads, 100 yards long accessed the coal seams that Cannock Wood Colliery worked. The water from these seams then supplied the well for the South Staffordshire water system, which in turn supplied both industry and the local population.
The building was knocked down in the 1960s and a new pumping station belonging to South Staffordshire Water Company now occupies the site.