<b>St Ann's Well</b> in The Crescent in the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Spa" title="Spa">spa</a> town of <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Buxton" title="Buxton">Buxton</a>, <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Derbyshire" title="Derbyshire">Derbyshire</a>.
<p>When he had filled a bottle here, our son asked "how do I turn it off?". It was pointed out to him that the water had been running continuously since the end of the last <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_Age" class="extiw" title="en:Ice Age">Ice Age</a> at least and that there was no need to turn it off.
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Most of the water from this spring is bottled and <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.buxtonwater.co.uk/products/products.asp">sold commercially</a> but there may well be an ancient endowment that requires it to be available free of charge. Certainly there is a continuous stream of people filling their bottles here - <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mossbrook/BUXTON.htm">another pic</a>.
RHaworth
Taken on 25 May 2005 16:08
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