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Bodle Well blue plaque

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This blue commemorative plaque records: Bodlewell Lane. Site of the Bodle Well, Old Sunderland 's main water supply through the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. A bodle, a Scottish coin worth half a farthing, would buy a skeel or 2 gallons of water. Recorded plaque organisation: Old Sunderland Heritage Trail.

From the Open Plaques record 40428

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