214 Some Account of the Parish of Monkton Farleigh. 



5. The inhabited house duty, at 9d. in the pound on the rateable 

 value of the house assessed. 



And voluntary Church and school rates varying according to the 

 good will of the donors and the exigencies of the case. 



Springs. 



Of these we have a plentiful supply. The best known is that 

 which issues from the Monks' Well, in Conduit Close. The water 

 in this has been analysed and pronounced to be very pure. "Each 

 quart " is said to contain " only about 20 grains of solid matter, and 

 this is composed chiefly of lime in the condition of carbonate and 

 muriate, so that, in fact, chalk is the principal part of the 20 grains.' ' 

 The water from this spring is conducted into a cistern within the 

 manor house garden, and thence supplies the house, the Conigree, the 

 fountain, and some troughs in the avenue. 



There is another spring at Ashwell. This supplies first the King's 

 Arms Inn and the farm-yard opposite; and next Mr. Spackman's 

 bailiff's house. Thence it passes into a cistern by the village pump, 

 and thence by earthen pipes down the village street to a turncock 

 opposite the baker's house. It is public property, and the keys are 

 kept at the manor house. 



A third spring proceeds from a well in the Lower Sands and 

 passes by iron pipes to the Upper Calcord and to cisterns in the 

 manor house grounds. These conduct to the manor farm and to 

 the Conigree, and thence to a fountain in Link Lane, and into the 

 avenue. 



There are springs also in Park Wood and in Pond Mead. These 

 pass thence first into the Wraxhall and then into the Broughton 

 Brook, and this falls into the Avon at Monkton in Broughton Gilford. 



Remarkable Occurrences. 



Canon Jackson has recorded the death of one of our notorieties, a 

 Tropnell, who was strangled by his own dog- couples; but Mr. 

 Powell has found in the Gentleman's Magazine of September 8th, 

 1806, a more remarkable occurrence still, viz., the account of " a 

 man struck in a thunderstorm near Monkton Farleigh." 



