Friar's Well
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Friar's Well
Image: © Rose and Trev Clough Taken: 28 Aug 2010
This strange little building, complete with escutcheon, survives in a bank below the road at Hall Brow, opposite the Police Station. It is built over a spring, and is said to be where the townspeople drew drinking water, until the first waterworks was built in the 1850s (Information : 'The History of Workington' by Richard Byers, 1998). On his website 'Old Workington', RW Barnes has photos of the well in 1986 http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~rwbarnes/workgton/friars.htm . There was a water spout in the shape of a man's face just outside the door - it is not there now.
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Image Location
Latitude
54.644756
Longitude
-3.541378