The Milbury Pub is a historic English country pub located in Beauworth, near Winchester, that features an ancient well with a human-powered treadmill and pulley system inside.
Lowering the bucket and hauling it back up demanded a full two miles of walking inside the treadmill wheel. The well inside the Milbury pub at Beauworth drops an astonishing 300 feet (about 100 meters).
Believed to have been hand-cut more than 800 years ago, it still features a 250-year-old human-powered treadmill and bucket pulley system. Operating it once required the equivalent of a two-mile walk inside the wheel. The well sits right inside the pub, close to the bar, as one of its most remarkable historic features.
The pub was purchased by Clive and Tanith Cummings in April 2023 and has since undergone a full refurbishment, now offering local ales, open fires, and views of the surrounding countryside.
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