The two compartments of Axbridge church wells are positioned under late medieval chamfered arches, and were restored during the latter part of the 19th Century. The well’s source is off a hill which runs into a pond to the north-east of the town square, once the head of water for a water mill which existed from the Middle Ages until the 18th Century. A rarity to find a town’s public wells complete, they were first mentioned in a deed of the 13th Century.