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Byfield Quarry Shaft S1 Byfield Quarry Shaft S18 Byfield Quarry Shaft S4 Byfield Quarry - Irving's Incline Byfield Quarry Shaft S2 Byfield Mine Location Byfield Quarry Shaft T3 Byfield Quarry Shaft R2 Byfield Quarry Shaft R4 Byfield Quarry - Allottment Shaft T2 Byfield Quarry Shaft T1 Byfield Entrance 1 Byfield Entrance 2 Byfield Quarry Shaft Q1 Firs Quarry Location Byfield Quarry Shaft R3 Allotments Quarry Byfield Quarry Unknown Shaft Cox's Quarry Location Byfield Quarry Shaft R1 Byfield Quarry Shaft 495 Byfield Quarry Shaft P1 Firs Quarry - Davidge's Bottom Firs Quarry Shaft A3 Stonehouse Quarry West Firs Quarry - Quarry Bottom (West) Firs Quarry - Quarry Bottom (East) Kelks Quarry Location Kelks Quarry Shaft Firs Quarry - De Montalt Place Firs Quarry Shaft A1 Firs Quarry Shaft B1 Firs Quarry Shaft D3 Firs Quarry Shaft B2 Firs Quarry Shaft D2 Coxe's Vertical Shaft Quarry Vinegar Down Quarry Wilk's Quarry Vinegar Down Quarry Air Shaft Firs Field - Memorial Shaft Firs Quarry Shaft H1 Firs Quarry Shaft I2 Firs Quarry Shaft I5 Firs Quarry Shaft CC4 Firs Quarry Shaft C1 Firs Quarry - Arched Shaft Firs Quarry - Hopecot Firs Quarry Shaft 5316 Firs Quarry Shaft 4097 Firs Quarry Shaft H2 Stonehouse Quarry North Firs Quarry - Hadley Shaft
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Combe Down, Bath.
| NGR: | ST 75716 62243 |
| WGS84: | 51.35873, -2.35015 |
| Length: | Not recorded |
| Depth: | Not recorded |
| Altitude: | Not recorded |
| Tags: | Shaft, Lost, Well |
| Registry: | wbc |
The well was photographed by David Pollard, which shows the well intersecting with an underground roadway in part of Byfield Mine.
The location is approximate and it is possble that this is a duplication of either Byfield Shaft 201 or Shaft 919. The well is not shown on large scale Ordnance Survey maps of the nineteenth century but is described as under the yard of the present King William pub at the junction of Combe Road and Rock Hall Lane.
Alternative Names: Hine's Brewery Well
Notes: Irving (2005) suggests that the well was originally sunk for a house in about 1818 although other sources suggest that the well was dug in the yard of the pub built by Job Salter in 1824. It was later renamed as the Hine's Brewery Well, after Thomas Hine, who was a later landlord of the pub and also a partner in the Combe Down Brewery.
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