Old Wives Well
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Old Wives Well
Image: © Martin Dawes Taken: 5 Apr 2017
This well used to have a wooden door on the front when it was used by the local farm, before piped water. My mother collected water from here and I remember it when it stood on open moorland, pre forestry. There were no adornments then.
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Image Location
Latitude
54.335837
Longitude
-0.779902