trcUt of Eouklei Clay, through whoso decomposed surface the 
water finds its way. It has a nasty (irony) taste. 
]\Iy attention was called, hy Mr. S. W. Utting, to the name 
Hedwell Street in Norwich, which is suggestive of iron-stained waters. 
All I can learn about the well is contained in Blomefield’s work.* 
It is situated in the parish, of St. Micliael-at-Plea ; also “ in some 
old evidences ” it is called St. Michael at Muspole, that is Much- 
Pool, there being formerly a Pool where the Rod Well now is. 
. . . . The Pond or Pool was filled up when the Well was 
made here, and the Pump was fixed in 1G29.” 
I was informed by Mr. Bayfield that a spring of a petrifying 
nature was to be met with in the neighbourhood of Burgh Apton. 
No doubt it derived its calcareous matter from the chalky Boulder 
Clay. This ends the record of the so-called Mineral Waters of 
Norfolk. The fresh-water springs, to which, as before hinted, 
Wells-next-the-Sea owes its name, flow into the tidal creek at the 
(^uay, and may be seen at low water running through the piles, 
or rising out of the mud. t 
The spring mentioned as occurring at Bungay, is no doubt the 
one that issued from the Bath Hills at Ditchingham in Norfolk. 
It is said to be a remarkably cold spring. 
Mr. Clement Held informs me that the waters of the Bath Hills 
appear to come out of the shingly Crag, but the spring seems to 
be choked. Nor does the “Thwaite Spring” call for special mention. 
It is marked on the Ordnance Map at Thwaite-next-Loddon, and 
IMr. Eeid says that, so far as he remembers, it is now merely a 
SAvamp. At Spring Farm, Attlebridge, at Holt, Letheringsett, and 
Hempton there are more or less copious springs. That at Holt rises 
on the Avest side of the toAvn, at the junction of marls and brick- 
earths Avith overlying sandy and gravelly beds, all belonging to the 
Glacial period. Although frequently spoken of as an “Artesian” 
Avater, it simply floAvs from the surface, through the porous strata, 
until arrested and throAvn out by the marly and clayey beds 
beneath. The spring at Hempton, Avhich issues from the Glacial 
sands on the grounds of the Abbey Farm, Avas analyzed by 
* Op>. cit. (fob cd.) p. 710. 
t See Munford, ‘Local Names in Norfolk,’ p. 219. 
