Baneswell Blue Plaque, Newport
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Baneswell Blue Plaque, Newport
Image: © Jaggery Taken: 4 Apr 2010
Appropriately affixed to a wall in Pump Street, Baneswell, the plaque records "BEFORE PIPED WATER IN 1848 NEWPORT'S 19,000 INHABITANTS DREW FROM SPRINGS AND WELLS AS IN MEDIEVAL TIMES. DISTRICTS WERE NAMED AFTER WELLS THOUGH CHOLERA AND TYPHOID EPIDEMICS INDICATE THEY WERE NOT A PURE SUPPLY" "Not a pure supply" applied in the case of the Baneswell pump. Its water was often contaminated with underground runoff down Stow Hill from St Woolos cathedral cemetery...
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Image Location
Latitude
51.5866
Longitude
-2.998763