What is claimed to be the worlds deepest well is at Woodingdean, near brighton. According to this website (which has a photo of the top today), it is is 390m (1,285ft) deep and took 4 years to dig, starting in the 1850s. Once water was struck, over 100m of it flooded in in the first …
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