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A stone well house situated alongside the public track up the hill from Dunster. An attractive and substantial arched stone canopy of medieval origin, now fitted with a modern stout wooden door barring access to the well. Water was once carried from the well in wooden and lead pipes to Dunster and the lane is known as Conduit Lane as a result; pipes still lead from the well possibly supplying water to nearby field troughs. At the bottom of the lane there is a grill in the wall of a Victorian house and this grill was access to the a water source fed via the pipes from the well; at the time of visiting, this was dry which suggests that the old pipework is no longer in operation.The track past St Leonard's Well leads on up the hill to another site marked as Blindman's Well on the OS map; this was found to be a spring fed pool of water next to a field hedge and used as a drinking place by cattle.
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