A Fountain

Number 9 in the Scavenger Hunt is a fountain, when I went to Bristol a few weeks ago the fountains were all switched off. So I went in search of another fountain, I must pass this fountain a couple of times a week so why I didn't consider it before I don't know.

This is just across the road from the fountain and it is the spring which is the source of the water.
I came home and found this information from the village website:

This glorious fountain is nearly 150 years old.  It has been created from the overflow from the springs which supplies water to the hamlet.  These natural springs have an average flow of 100,000 gallons per day.  They are categorized as "petrified springs" because of the materials high concentration of calcium hydrogen carbonate dissolved in the water.  Not only is the water "hard", but the height of the fountain has increased over the years because of the minerals have built up the rock surface.  

http://www.dulcote.com/index.html

Also on the website I found this photograph in the archives.

I remember passing the fountain in the winter when we had very low temperatures, it looks amazing when it freezes. Next time I will have to stop and take a photograph!