#WordWeavers 20: "How do your characters access water or whatever they need to drink?"
Medieval Londoners had access to public wells, and some people dug their own private wells to reach shallow groundwater. Increasing contamination of the wells led the London authorities in the 13th century to build the Great Conduit, which piped fresh spring water from Tyburn into Cheapside. Londoners also used water from the Thames, which was not yet thoroughly polluted.
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