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Intro
Kings Pool
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Where
does the name Ewelme come from? There are a couple of theories
about this.
1. From
the Latin Aqua Alma “Sweet Water”
2. From
Anglo-Saxon Aewhylme “Waters Whelming” as in water
whelming up from the ground.
Which
ever it is there is no doubt the source of Ewelmes name comes from
its’ bountiful spring which fills Kings Pool and provides the
water flowing down into the watercress beds.
Personally I favour the Anglo-Saxon,
I’ll let you debate and decide your
favourite.
Chaucer
wrote of the spring
“In worlde is none more clere of hue,
Its water ever freshe and newe,
That whelmeth up in waves bright,
The mountenance of three fingers height.”
In
Medieval times the waters of Ewelme were famous to cure
“divers ills”
Another
stream can also be found in Gloucestershire named the River
Ewelme.