"Rod Craddock" wrote
Just noticed another oops ;~) The first picture is the Hurst Greenshaft -
closer to the camera than the Alderman in the other 2 pics.
Perhaps I should explain about the water supply. It's the Estate's private
supply from a spring that's never been known to dry up in the 6 or 7
centuries that there's been a house here. It runs into an underground
reservoir in the Deerpark and what isn't used in the Hall, Gardens and
farms overflows into a small stream that ends up in the Dee estuary about
half a mile away. That overflow is always running even in dry year like
1976 so we are extremely fortunate. Oh - and it makes a lovely cup of tea
;-)

Funny that, when my old farming relatives were alive they had a well to
supply all the water to the house and farmyard whereas the rest of the
village, Wardington, Oxon, were on mains. Some of the older locals used to
come into the farmyard to fill their kettles with the well water in order to
make tea.

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Regards
Bob
In Runnymede, 17 miles West of London