Monument record 15869 - Malpas Town Well

<1> See map for surveyor, c.1837-51, Cheshire Tithe Maps and Awards, EDT 257/2, undated (Maps and Plans). SCH3266.

A plot is labelled Well on this map. The award describes this plot as a well and yard, owned and occupied by the Overseers of the Township of Malpas.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1871-1882, Ordnance Survey County Series (Epoch 1) 25 inch to 1 mile - Cheshire, SJ4947, 1875 (Maps and Plans). SCH2462.

This small sub-square area is labelled Town Well.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1896-1898, Ordnance Survey First Revision County Series (Epoch 2) 25 inch to 1 mile - Cheshire, SJ4947, 1898 (Maps and Plans). SCH3848.

This small sub-square area is labelled Town Well, a pump is depicted on the southern side.

<4> Ordnance Survey, 1909-1912, Ordnance Survey Second Revision County Series (Epoch 3) 25 inch to 1 mile - Cheshire, SJ4947, 1911 (Maps and Plans). SCH4361.

This small sub-square area is labelled Town Well, a small building or structure is depicted in the southern corner.

<5> Ordnance Survey, 1951-1992, National Grid Overhaul and Re-survey Edition A (Epoch A5), SJ4947 A5 4000a, 1973 (Maps and Plans). SCH9384.

The well is no longer depicted.

<6> Malpas Online, 2005-2023, Malpas Online, Water Supply for Malpas (Web Site). SCH9435.

There are eighteenth century documentary references to the well (1737) and village pump (1765). This pump stood over the town well at the bottom of Well Street (aka Well Way). In 1832 the rate payers of Malpas approached the two major landowners, Lord Cholmondeley and Squire Drake, to improve the access to water in the village. They financed the building in 1835 of a waterworks on the Good Moors to the south-east of the town. The town pump continued in use into the twentieth century, to serve those residents close to it who could not afford a connection to the piped system.

<7> Cheshire County Council, 2002, Cheshire Historic Towns Survey: Chester District Part 1: Archaeological Assessments, Malpas p.4 (Report). SCH6979.

Documentary reference to Well Street in 1404.