A PLAQUE commemorating part of Ludlow’s history has been replaced by the town’s Civic Society.

The plaque can be found on a water conduit next to the historic Buttercross in the town centre.

The conduit, a water supply point, was given to the town in 1581 by Sir Henry Sidney and was moved to its present position from the nearby Town Cross in 1743. It was supplied from a reservoir on Whitcliffe Common. The carvings on either side are thought to be from the original Town Cross.

The plaque was first provided by the Civic Society in 1982 along with others around the town, now totalling 40.

But the plaque went missing during the filming of Tom Jones in the mid- 1990s and, after recent prompting by society member Owen Elias, has now been replaced at a cost of £200.

This water supply point was one of a number of conduits which were provided for the town in early times, for the general population.

A well known ‘white conduit’ was at the Tolsey and was supplied from the well in Livesey Road. Larger houses often had their own private wells.