The Drumming Well of Oundle

Some wells were believed to give warning of trouble to come. Chambers quotes Baxter’s World of Spirits, where Baxter recalls that while he was a schoolmaster at Oundle, about the time the Scots came into England, a well in one Dob’s yard drummed like a drum beating a march for several days and nights, changing its tunes, and country people came to hear it. When Charles II died, the Oundle carrier told him the well had drummed again. Chambers sets it beside the Routing Well of Inveresk, which was said to rumble before a storm.