Well, well

Whenever I've passed this fountain head at Well Head in Selborne I've meant to take a picture and I finally got round to it today. And I thought he looked scarier in sepia.

Apparently the spring, which rises under Noar Hill, has never been known to fail and it was certainly working today. It was diverted by public subscription in memory of Gilbert White in 1894 to form a water-supply for the village. The overflow discharges from this lion-head fountain into an open trough and then runs underground for a few yards, reappears and then runs north-eastward through a narrow a picturesque valley with wooded slopes on either side towards Oakhanger, where it becomes known as the Oakhanger stream.