Emma's Well and Memorial Stone

EMMA'S WELL AND MEMORIAL STONE, AMWELL HILL

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1077991
Date first listed:
30-Sept-1983
Statutory Address:
EMMA'S WELL AND MEMORIAL STONE, AMWELL HILL

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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1077991
Date first listed:
30-Sept-1983
Statutory Address 1:
EMMA'S WELL AND MEMORIAL STONE, AMWELL HILL

Location

Statutory Address:
EMMA'S WELL AND MEMORIAL STONE, AMWELL HILL

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Hertfordshire
District:
East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:
Great Amwell
National Grid Reference:
TL 37222 12575

Details

GREAT AMWELL AMWELL LANE TL 3712 (north side) Great Amwell Village

12/3 Emma's Well and Memorial Stone GV II

A brick revetted basin for the spring from which Amwell takes its name, and which was one of the 2 sources of the New River of 1609-13 (the other being Chadwell at Ware). C18 or C19 buff brick revetment walls to D-shaped pool with island, weir, sluice and overflow, presumably representing repairs and renewals of the original arrangement. The spring frequently now runs dry. On slope between road and spring an upright white stone memorial slab inscribed with verses from the poem 'Amwell' by the Quaker poet John Scott of Amwell (1730-1783).

Listing NGR: TL3722212575

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