Reopening an Ancient Well
The opening of Windy Cross Well is a community led project with two objectives. These are...
First is to get the ancient well under the floor of the pump-house to be functioning and producing drinking water by means of a hand pump.
Second is to have something beautiful to look at instead of a closed, forgotten and sorry looking pump-house.
If we can achieve both or just the second objective then we will have been successful.
To Remove the stones from the entrance to see what lies beyound.
Assessing the condition of the well under the floor.
This may take a while.
Once we deem the water to be safe we will install a practial but beautiful hand pump and drain.
We will add hand forged beautiful gates like it once had.
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Where is Windy Cross Well?
You'll find Windy Cross Well at the juntion of South Street and Halsdon Terrace at the very top of Mill Street Great Torrington.
It's a very easy walk from South Street car park.