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In Alton there was the Holybourne
which was supplied
by a spring from the chalk
near the upper green sand outcrop
and has an elevation of
three hundred fifty feet
it was close to the churchyard
Formerly the water issued from its natural spring
almost opposite the west door of the church
but when the churchyard was enlarged
the spring head and stream were culverted
thirty or forty yards to the pond.
What its ancient sanctity derived from
is now difficult to say.
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