A well at this location in Branxton is believed to have existed since at least the nineteenth century. It was described in 1911 as being a simple trough below a spring. In 1912 plans emerged to build a fountain at the site. The intention was to commemorate, at a more convenient location, an earlier well commissioned by the Marchioness of Waterford, on Flodden Hill which is romantically associated with Sir Walter Scot's poem 'Marmion'. An appeal was launched to raise £100 but the plan did not materialise. The present well-head dates from around 1935. The quotation inscribed on the face of the well head is from Sir Walter Scott's poem 'Marmion' (Canto 6, stanza XXX) in which the fictional knight, mortally wounded at the Battle of Flodden in 1513, is brought refreshment from a local spring.