https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/print/#zoom=18&lat=54.0672&lon=-2.2801&layers=171&b=1
It enables you to search the maps of any location in various formats and dates. The link should take you to the Ordnance Survey map of the area around Settle Station of 1910, including the water tower.
It has all sorts of facilities to enable such tricks as measuring any area of land. For interest, our plot is 1,112.676 sq m or 11,976.74 sq ft. So now we know.
When we bought the place Neil Wright's estate agent details showed the area as approximately 1/4 of an acre. I asked Neil how he calculated that and he said he had guessed it. Not a bad guess either - it works out at 0.27493112947658 of an acre.
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