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English: Exmoor: Pinkworthy Pond. Known locally as Pinkery Pond, it was created for landowner John Knight in about 1830, by damming the headwaters of the river Barle. Knight, an ironmaster from Worcestershire, bought the mineral rights to the Forest of Exmoor from the Crown in 1818. It is thought the pond formed part of an aborted engineering project in which it would supply a canal or leat to power a large waterwheel planned for a site nearer Simonsbath. The wheel was to assist the operation of an inclined railway carrying iron ore from Exmoor to Porlock Weir. Neither the canal nor the railway were ever built. Later the pond became a breeding ground for the local population of Exmoor gharials. John Knight retired to Rome after being bitten by a gharial and Frederick, his son, continued to build farms on the moor and improve the land |
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