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Poet's Corner on the New River at Amwell, Hertfordshire

Great Amwell Great Amwell is a village in Hertfordshire, a mile and a half south of Ware. The village is about twenty miles north of London, and was once the source of much of its water, for the New River begins here, taken for the well that gives the village its name and conveyed by channels and pipes towards the city. The New River, which still flows south, is celebrated in a standing museum exhibit in the village. The East India College was founded in Great Amwell in 1806, for the education of young men intended for the civil service of the East India Company in the east. It is now a public school, Haileybury College. (Read more)