Bodle Well

HER Number

5467

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Bodle Well

Place

Sunderland

Map Sheet

NZ45NW

Class

Water Supply and Drainage

Site Type: Broad

Water Storage Site

Site Type: Specific

Well

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Site of the Bodle Well. The name comes from the fact that a charge was made for water. A bodle was a Scottish coin worth half a farthing. A bodle would have bought you a skeel or 4 gallons of water. The well was removed in 1938, but its name survives in the name Bodlewell Lane.

Easting

440300

Northing

557300

Grid Reference

NZ440300557300

Sources

<< HER 5467 >> Plaque on wall of 180 High Street East