wellside

1595, George Peele, The Old Wives’ Tale, The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, lines 777-779, Once againe for a husband, & in faith Celanta I have got the start of you; Belike husbands growe by the Well side […]

1891, W. B. Yeats, Representative Irish Tales, New York and London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, Volume I, Dedication, p. iv, A honied ringing! under the new skies They bring you memories of old village faces, Cabins gone now, old well-sides, old dear places, And men who loved the cause that never dies.

1902, F. St. George Mivart, “Report on the General Sanitary Circumstances and Administration of the Stroud Rural and Nailsworth Urban Districts” in Thirteenth Annual Report of the Local Government Board: Supplement containing the Report of the Medical Officer for 1900-01, London, App. A, No. 11, p. 130, Many wells were seen which are evidently liable to pollution from the direct passage into them of filth from the surface of the ground […] in some cases dripping or trickling was noticed at the wellsides, in others the sides were heavily grown with vegetation.