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This site is recorded as being in Ladywell Orchard, Ashburton but the orchard has long gone and been replaced by private gardens. However the clue is a tiny group of old houses called Ladywell Square which is situated close to the primary school and at the end of the road which leads past the chantry chapel of St Lawrence; from this Square an alley way leads in front of some more cottages and along the bottom of the old orchard site. Here the boundary wall of the orchard has been curved to provide space for a large stone trough ( now filled with soil and planted with flowers). This trough is reported to have been the source of water for the nearby cottages and seems to have been filled by a spring in the orchard and site of Ladywell. 19th century drainage tiles still in-situ provided an open channel for the overflow from the trough and into drains. No local traditions are known about Ladywell except that it was one of the town water supply sources. Site is include in Devon Sites and Monuments Register as Sacred Well
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