Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bartlett's Well
Carew, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Water Supply and Drainage
- Date of designation
- 6 February 1997
- Locality
- Sageston
- Town
- Tenby
- Community
- Carew
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.69518, -4.81535
- Cadw reference
- 18215
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
At N side of Bird's Lane in Sageston, NE of the village school.
History
A well formed at a natural spring and probably named after Thomas Bartlett who leased Bird's Lane in 1636 from Sir John Carew, though the name Bartlett is traced back locally to the C14. Bartlett's Well continued to serve Carew and Sageston villages into the C20
Exterior
Rectangular wellhead in limestone masonry approx. 1 m square. The opening faces N to the stream and there is said to be a stone platform in front of the opening although too silted up to be visible. The well is at least a further 1 m deep below the sill level of the opening. The opening is protected by a wrought-iron gate. The top of the wellhead is modern, of bricks laid in a vault-shape on iron bands.
Reason for designation
Listed as a good example of post-mediaeval public well maintained in good order and used until the mid-C20.
Nearby in the register
- Sadgeston Hall and GranaryDomesticunder 1 mi
- Old Cottage ChimneyDomesticunder 1 mi
- 9 Picton TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
- 8 Picton TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.