Photograph Notes: Russell Spring runs out through a niche in the 19th century retaining wall which supports a raised pavement of High Street. The spring was donated, circa 1850, by Mrs Lucy Russell, a mill owner, and was the main source of clean water in that end of the village until into the 20th Century. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1088617 Blockley is a large village in the Cotswold District of Gloucestershire, some 3 miles northwest of Moreton-in-Marsh. The village has its roots in the wool industry but it became a prosperous centre of the silk industry in the 18th and 19th centuries. The silk mills used the waters of the Brockley Brook, a tributary of Knee Brook which flows into the River Stour.

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