Youlgrave Waterworks

In the summer months the lower water quantity in these sources concentrated toxins, causing elevated levels of infant mortality.

Bowman, an elderly spinster, belonged to a farming family that claimed a lineage back to the Norman conquest and whose Quaker parents had instilled in her the importance of charity.

[1] A Youlgrave resident and surveyor designed a system that would run a 2-inch (51 mm) diameter pipe over 1,100 yards (1,000 m) from a spring at Mawstone, south of the village, to a 1,500-imperial-gallon (6,800 L; 1,800 US gal) tank, known as a conduit.

[3] It has not been uniformly praised with architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner describing it as a "big plain lumpy circular conduit head".

[1] The Youlgrave Waterworks Company was formed to manage the water supply and villagers were charged six pence per day to access it.

[2][1] In addition to the subscription every able-bodied man in the village was asked to provide three days labour or funds to pay for the equivalent.

[4] It is a not-for-profit private company limited by guarantee but run for community benefit and managed by twelve volunteer directors.

[1][5] Youlgrave Waterworks is not a statutory undertaker, unlike most water companies in the United Kingdom, and is not regulated by Ofwat.

[7] The village remains one of a small number in the UK served entirely by a private supply and not by one of the Ofwat-regulated companies.

[1] The Youlgrave Waterworks is a water only company, sewerage services are provided to the village by Severn Trent.