LOCAL SPRINGS AND WELLS.
Long before the advent of the Heywood Water Works, Heywood must have been fairly well supplied with springs and wells. For proof of this we have only to notice the variety of local names such as Spring Brow, Spring Cottage, Spring Gardens, Springfield, Pump (Hopwood), Longfield Pump, and many others.
There used to be a considerable spring situated in what was known as "Jim Ogden Hollow" (Greentown), and there was also a good spring near James-street . Information is wanted of the above and of any others wl.ich may be known to your readers.
What is there known of a well of styptic water situate somewhere near Broadoak? The water from this well was formerly in repute for the cure of sore eyes, and it is probably
known to people living in the vicinity . AQUA .
Taken from Heywood Notes and Queries available online at www.link4life.org/localstudies
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