Day and night, the rams thumped every 20 seconds or so and were audible throughout East Dundry until the 1950s.Inhabitant's childhood night memories. Walnut Farm ran their ram well into the mid sixties with the ram feed water supply coming from an open-topped limestone cistern built into the south side of the valley containing approximately 12 cubic metres of water bubbling up from an underground spring. The ram was housed in a small shed 40 metres into the base of the valley next to the stream with the waste wash from the ram flowing into it. The delivery pipe from the ram ran north up to a holding tank at the farm. Once a mains water supply was installed (1957/8) the water from the ram was used solely for livestock and washing down the yards. The rhythmic thumping of the ram had a shorter frequency than the one mentioned at North Hill Farm with gentle knocks about every 3 to 4 seconds.
