Information for record number MWA3835:
Drinking Fountain at Green Farm

Summary The site of a drinking fountain dated to the Imperial period is located 400m south west of Clay Bank Coppice.
What Is It?  
Type: Well, Site
Period: Imperial - Industrial (1751 AD - 1913 AD)
Where Is It?  
Parish: Little Wolford
District: Stratford on Avon, Warwickshire
Grid Reference: SP 26 35
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Level of Protection National - Old SMR PrefRef (Grade: )
Sites & Monuments Record
Description

 
Source Number  
A wellhouse.
1 On the E side of the road which forks right to Little Wolford from the A34 is a drinking fountain, stone-built with a tiled roof. This is no longer in use.
 
Sources

Source No: 2
Source Type: Photograph
Title: SMR Card
Author/originator: PWF
Date: 1983
Page Number:
Volume/Sheet: PRN 3835
   
Source No: 1
Source Type: Unpublished document
Title: SMR Card
Author/originator: PWF
Date: 1983
Page Number:
Volume/Sheet: PRN 2387
   
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Glossary

 
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source SMR Card Sites and Monuments Record Card. The Warwickshire Sites and Monuments Record began to be developed during the 1970s. The details of individual archaeological sites and findspots were written on record cards. These record cards were used until the 1990s, when their details were entered on to a computerised system. The record cards are still kept at the office of the Warwickshire Sites and Monuments Record. back
period Imperial 1751 AD to 1914 AD (end of the 18th century AD to the beginning of the 20th century AD)

This period comes after the Post Medieval period and before the modern period and starts with beginning of the Industrial Revolution in 1750. It includes the second part of the Hannoverian period (1714 – 1836) and the Victorian period (1837 – 1901). The Imperial period ends with the start of the First World War in 1914.
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monument DRINKING FOUNTAIN * A fountain erected specifically to supply drinking water. back
monument SITE * Unclassifiable site with minimal information. Specify site type wherever possible. back
monument STONE * Use only where stone is natural or where there is no indication of function. back
monument ROAD * A way between different places, used by horses, travellers on foot and vehicles. back
monument INDUSTRIAL * This is the top term for the class. See INDUSTRIAL Class List for narrow terms. back
monument WELL * A shaft or pit dug in the ground over a supply of spring-water. back
monument COPPICE * A managed small wood or thicket of underwood grown to be periodically cut to encourage new growth providing smaller timber. back

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