Drinking fountain in Cherington
Description of this historic site
The site of a drinking fountain dating to the Imperial period. It is located 200m north east of the church at Cherington.
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Notes about this historic site
1 A drinking fountain set in stone-built arched surround. No date carved on this fountain but it is similar in style to the example in Upper Brailes dated 1877 (PRN 2340).
2 Photographed in 1983.
- For the sources of these notes, see the
- Timetrail record
- produced by the Historic Environment Record.
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It used to be traditional (circumstances permitting presumably) for new mothers to have four days seclusion in the bedroom after birth. They were fed on something called caudle, a constituent of which was old ale. If no old ale was available, then water was collected from certain wells, called, “caudle wells”. Cherrington was meant to have one. I wonder if this was it?
Source: “Folklore of Warwickshire” by Roy Palmer
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