Emma'S Well And Memorial Stone is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. Well.

Emma'S Well And Memorial Stone

WRENN ID
forgotten-steel-sorrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Hertfordshire
Country
England
Type
Well
Source
Historic England listing

Description

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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