Bentley Priory Nature Trail
Post 16: This mound and another ten metres to the south (with the arrow post on top) are all that remain of two ice houses. Before the invention of electric refrigerators, ice was cut from the lake and stored in the half-buried buildings. The ice would last well into the summer and could then be carried up to the house at the top of the hill as needed. In late April through May this area of the woodland is a carpet of bluebells.

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