• This feature is a water trough and well head in the village of Slindon, Staffs.
• It is now dry. It originally stood on the corner of Aspley Lane and Newcastle Road where it provided a well head for this villagers who did not have access to water. It also provided a drinking trough for horses. The widening and realignment of the A519 through Slindon during the 1960s led the fountain to be moved to its current location.
• The barely-legible inscription above the archway reads that it was "Erected by John Charles Salt for the use of the inhabitants of Slindon, AD 1884".

He was a member of a well established Staffordshire family, and had been a landowner of a large part of Slindon for most of his life, inheriting the land from his father, who died in 1865. The Salt family were part of a dynasty of bankers. By 1893, John Salt had become a director of Lloyds, while his cousin, Thomas Salt MP and owner of Sandon Hall, was the Chairman of the company.

• In addition to the fountain, John Salt gave the school and the church of St Chads to the village.
• More info about the wellhead here [1] (although it has to be said that the photograph on that website is NOT of the same feature!)