Egmont waterfall

We've walked long this stretch of the coastal path many times, but never before have we explored Egmont waterfall; it's easy to forget it's there. Yes, we've seen it from below on the beach, but not really known where it'd come from; the stream which feeds the falls hidden. We now know that the stream runs through a lightly wooded gully or 'Gwyle' as known in these parts, passing through circular dressed stone culvert for about 30m, which is where the coastal path crosses it, making it invisible and easy to pass by unawares. Though with a little determination, we made our way through the undergrowth, over a barbed wire fence and out onto an open grass terrace with a fine dressed stone wall marking the cliff edge; there's the remains of a stairway which once led to the beach below, now long eroded, and on the edge of the grass where it becomes light woodland, there's a flight of dressed stone stairs leading into a circular domed room, which appears to house an old pump of some kind. I've no idea what function it served. From this grassy terrace you can see where the stream emerges from its culvert, runs through a stone lined channel and off the cliff edge and onto the beach below; it once flowed over the end of the grey promontory known as 'Freshwater Step' and into the sea, probably contained by a continuation of the stone lined channel which has since disappeared over the edge.  Off the track and nicely secluded, the grass terrace would make a great place to chill; I bet it was a favoured haunt of the wealthy who'd have lived up along the gwyle at the impressive, Encombe House back in the day.