The Sewerage Treatment Plant

Why is the sewage treatment works located so close to the River Avon? Because that is how it was designed - to facilitate discharges of waste water.

Many houses relied on ‘earth closets’ until the mid-1900s. It is not exactly clear when water closets first arrived in the village, but papers in the Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre (WSHC) show a plan for a new system, with a single sewerage treatment plant south of the road between Sutton Benger and the River Avon, and with ‘disposal of the effluent’ into the river.