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TIDESWELL AND TIDESLOW. 



present autumn, accompanied by the vicar, the Rev. J. M. J. 

 Fletcher, I visited the site of the well, situated in a private 

 garden attached to " Craven House," on the right-hand side 

 of the Manchester road. It consists of a square opening formed 

 of brick, sunk several feet below the ground level, with a sloping 

 bank towards it on each side. It was put into its present 

 satisfactory condition some years since, within the memory 

 of an old inhabitant, after having been in a greatly neglected 

 state for a long period. A remarkable corroboration of the 

 tradition asserting its intermitting character, and which appears 



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Reproduced from Saxton's map. 



to have escaped the notice of modern writers, remains to be 

 told. The seventeenth-century map of Saxton, " amended by P. 

 Lea," contains three Derbyshire illustrations, and of these one is 

 entitled " The Tiding Well." As shown in the accompanying 

 -facsimile, it bears a singularly close resemblance to the existing 

 well-opening, which has been built, as it were, on the same 

 lines, that of the Barmoor Clough example being entirely 

 different. 



The spring at Tideswell continues to act as an ordinary well, 

 except in dry seasons, having long since lost its ebbing and 

 flowing peculiarity. Judging from the description given by 



