Pranket's Well, Stoke Sub Hamdon

Plaque on Pranket's Well. Until the early C20 there was no mains water supply in the village of Stoke Sub Hamdon. While some houses had wells the majority would have to queue to use Pranket's well, supplied by surface water from Hamdon Hill. The stone from which the conduit opened was inscribed "God be thanket, William Prankett, in 1701, caused this water here to run". A Dr Stanley Brimblecome in the first half of the C20 analysed the water and found it to contain potentially dangerous impurities, providing the impetus for a mains water supply. (Info from somerset.gov.uk)

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