The well in the back garden

The well is at the back to the house next to the culvert. It is 1.2m deep, 0.8m wide at the top and 0.87m at the bottom. The shaft is chalk lined. The brick work around the top, the metal grill, the covering doors, windlass and roof all date from about 1990. They were modelled on the well head at Whitehall. However, the well at Honeywood is so shallow that it was probably always pumped. The water level fluctuates and it is sometimes dry.
 
Two lead pipes ran into the well both 45mm in diameter and both probably without seams which means that they were later than 1820. Before that lead pipes were made by rolling a sheet of lead around a former and then soldering the join. In 1820 Thomas Barr, a Shrewbury plumber, took a patent for making lead pipe by forcing the metal through a dye. The resulting pipe had no seam.

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