View from the Plough Inn Foxley Road towards Bristol Street
Photograph by David Forward

Malmesbury people used to catch their water from different running streams. You used to see a row of buckets by the stream oposite the Plough Inn until the Waterworks came, was built here by Mr. Randell. A cup was kept some years ago for people to drink of the spring at Daniels Well. Some parts of Malmesbury still have the old drainage called drock drain which does enable rats to come up.

There are many ways to get to the Common like Rudges Lane, Middleditch, Arches Lane, over Ally Slopers to Thornhill and Hundred Hill to Shed Hill or over Nott Hill where the only pound is now standing where they used to put stray cattle in then pay a toll to get them out. This leads to Arches Farm and Lane named after the Archard family who lived in the area around 1600.

Mr Whitting and Mr Bartlett - Tailors

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