| The Washing Lake |
A vigorous stream which ran from Mayhill
down Mount Pleasant and into the centre of town. One of the best water supplies for the
early town. It flowed into the Town Ditch. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries it
supplied the large tannery that once stood on the site of The Hanbury public house. |
| Ffynnon y Graig
(later known as the Cwm Evan John Spring). |
A large stream which rose from a spring
above Rosehill Quarry and flowed through Ffynone and Uplands before crossing the flat
expanse known as Sandfields and eventually joining the Town Ditch. Although a first class
water supply in its upper reaches, the lower course became the early town's most notorious
sewer. |
| The (Ana)Baptist
Well |
A spring which rose on the western slope
of Mayhill and flowed through Waun Wen before joining the large stream known as the
Glasdwr Brook. |
| The Burlais Brook
(Burgh Lake) |
The stream which was used by the
Normans to denote the northern boundary of the Borough of Swansea (hence its English
name). Heavily used as a water supply for the works at Cwmfelin, and the residents of
Greenhill. This stream was the source of a number of outbreaks of illness, particularly as
so many people relied on it for water supply despite the fact that it was the receptacle
for a considerable amount of industrial and human waste. |
| Saint David’s
Ditch |
Another important early stream used by
the Normans as the eastern boundary of the Borough of Swansea. It rose as a spring at The
Cockit and flowed through an area later known as Bryn Mill. |
| The Cwm Dawkin (or
Donkin) Springs |
A series of springs from the southern
slope of the Town Hill which amalgamated to produce an excellent water supply used in the
nineteenth century to fill the Cwm Donkin reservoir. |
