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The place name Luckwell Bridge is claimed to be a corruption of St Luke's Well and some records claim a holy well here; however Dom Ethelbert Horne writing in his 1923 book on Someset Holy wells notes that his enquiries failed find such a well although he does not dismiss the claim that one may have existed. Records of the auction of the Cutcombe Estate in 1928 reveal that there was a water pump at Luckwell Bridge and local enquiries have confirmed that this took water from a spring close to the road and bridge. At that time there was a rubble stone well house in which the pump was located and this existed until 2001 when it was demolished during garden improvements. It has been possible to locate a photograph of the structure just before it was destroyed but no evidence now exists on site of the well house or the spring which fed it. It is unfortunate that the structure has gone as it will not now be possible to judge if indeed this was the site of St Luke's Well but it seems reasonable to suggest that this site close to the bridge is the most likely claimant.
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