Description

PORTLAND

SY6873 HIGH STREET, Fortuneswell
969-1/3/115 (North side)
Maiden Well

II

Remains of boundary wall and well head or cistern. Probably
C18. A small square construction in rough squared Portland
block set at the side of High Street opposite the right hand
boundary to The Captain's House (qv). About 2m x 1.7m x 1.5m
high, with stone slab top; behind this remains of stone block
wall rises 6 courses above bank for c 8m width, stepped at S
end. This looks rather like a mounting block, but is the
remains of one of the water sources which were so important to
the Island until the bringing of piped water in 1900. None of
the formal well heads has survived, so that this modest
remnant has historical interest.

Listing NGR: SY6851473394

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26570877

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Recommended Books

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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey