Hobson's Conduit
Hexagonal stone conduit head from a 1614 fountain, marking a spring-fed watercourse still running.
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This guide to Hobson's Conduit in Cambridge follows Thomas Hobson, a seventeenth-century carrier who hired out horses, and the one rule he enforced on every customer who came to his stable. It touches the spring water brought in from Nine Wells, the old fountain that once stood on Market Hill, and a plague year when the London road went quiet. Best heard beside the six-sided stone at the corner of Lensfield Road, looking along Trumpington Street.
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