When approaching Great Budworth from the main Warrington to Northwich road, you’ll come upon the Running Pump at the foot of the hill. To this day, water from this source still pours into its stone trough. This was the only source of drinking water for the whole community until 1934 when a piped supply was first connected. Here village gossips would gather and sweethearts would swear undying love which, according to legend, would “last so long as runs that water from the spout.”
