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Wells and windmills - so evocative of times gone by. Nursery rhymes and fairy tales have them - and here in London there are some that have been preserved and can be visited. On an Autumn day I set off to Barnet to find the well that Samuel Pepys had visited over three hundred years before. On the way I came across this ancient iron wayside marker and stopped to try to see what it was but it remains a mystery to me. A wayside marker Then at the bottom of a steep hill and a cl