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In the mid-19th C it had been known for many years that a natural sulphur spring ran out of the hillside about a mile east of Haydon Bridge. It wasn’t until 1863, however, that an organisation called the Haydon Bridge ‘Picnic Committee’ got permission from the Receiver of the Greenwich Hospital Estates to tidy the area and build a basin to collect the water. Some years later, the well was suffering from neglect: the earth had slipped down from the bank above the spring, the path to it was almost impassable and the basin was covered, although the water continued to run. In November 1897 it was agreed that the restoration of the spa well would be the village’s permanent memorial to Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee. For further information, see the second article (that by Dennis Telford) at Link (Archive Link ) . See also NY8564 : Haydon Spa Well, NY8564 : Haydon Spa Well (3) and NY8564 : Plaque on Haydon Spa Well.