page_title: Alkborough
section_title: Low Wells
hierarchical_section_title: Alkborough / Landmarks / Low Wells
caption_attribution_description: English: Low Wells - Prospect Lane, Alkborough
context_page_description: Alkborough is a parish of 458 people in 192 households in North Lincolnshire, England, located near the northern end of The Cliff range of hills overlooking Trent Falls, the confluence of the River Trent and the River Ouse.
  Alkborough, with the hamlet of Walcot about 1 mile south, forms a civil parish which covers about 2,875 acres. The village was once thought to be the location that the Romans called Aquis, but that name is now usually associated with the town of Buxton in Derbyshire.
context_section_description: Low Wells is a spring that discharges from a point just the south side of Prospect Lane, north of (and several yards below) St John the Baptist Church. There is no evidence suggesting how the spring became known as "Low Wells", though its position below the level of the main part of the village would seem to suggest an obvious answer. The well takes the form of three low brick arches behind a long rectangular trough, into which the water flows. This well-structure is thought to have been constructed c. 1850. As this arrangement was probably to facilitate the watering of livestock, a pump was installed nearby to tap the springs first and provide clean drinking water for villagers, though this has now gone. This well structure is thought to have been constructed c. 1850, and was restored in 1986.
  Low Wells is accessible to the public from Prospect Lane, and is located at coordinates 53.686635°N 0.666337°W.
caption: Low Wells
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