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Minehead's water supply

Pemswell, Minehead

Like any community Minehead needed water and this was traditionally supplied by springs and streams and later also from wells but the growth in tourism strained resources to breaking point and it is no coincidence that the Minehead Waterworks Company was formed in 1874, the year the railway arrived.

Content derived from research undertaken as part of the Victoria County History project