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So named from the religious House which stood close by. I have rather an odd anecdote to relate of the Nun’s Well. One day the landlady of a public-house, a field’s length from the well, on the road side, said to me–“You have been to see the Nun’s Well, Sir?”–“The Nun’s Well! what is that?” said the Postman, who in his royal livery stopt his mail-car at the door. The landlady and I explained to him what the name meant, and what sort of people the nuns were. A countryman who was standing by, rather tipsy, stammered out–“Aye, those nuns were good people; they are gone; but we shall soon have them back again.” The Reform mania was just then at its height.