This project was inspired by seeing the well at the aptly named Doveswell Cottage (by kind permission of Venetia Champniss) and wondering how did they do that? ‘That’ being a beautifully constructed and dressed stone shaft some 60 feet deep. In due course I learnt the answer… read more
Reproduced with acknowledgement by kind consent of H.M. Stationery Office
The village of Chedworth is on the side of a valley traversed by a stream which rises in springs near the church and joins the Coln at Fosse Bridge. In this valley, in the neighbourhood
THE practice of well-sinking may be properly divided into two divisions, digging or excavating being one, and steining or lining with brickwork or stone the other; in the case of hard chalk or rock, the latter operation is
Most cottages either had a pump or well of its own, or shared a supply with several of its neighbours. All of the dwellings in Ballinger’s Row drew their drinking water by means of a pump situated in an alcove built into the cottage at the … read more
