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This blue commemorative plaque records: Baneswell. Before piped water in 1848, Newport's 19,000 inhabitants drew from springs and wells as in medieval times. Districts were named after wells, though cholera and typhoid epidemics indicate they were not a pure supply. Recorded plaque organisation: Newport Civic Society.
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