Photographs of Foolow, Derbyshire - The "Duck Pond"
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The "Duck Pond", Foolow

Foolow, The "Duck Pond"


The “duck pond”, or ‘mere’ is a walled pond, fed by an underground spring and formerly used for watering cattle - so unsurprisingly it was ‘nasty green water’ when young William Elliott (b. 1831) fell in!

(Commentary provided by Rosemary Lockie)
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