 Negotiations with the Electricity Board started with a meeting in Walnut Farm in 1952 and installation in 1953 of an 11 kV supply from across the valley in 1953.The houses and farms built before about 1890 (and dating back to mediaeval and earlier times) are all geologically close to the division between clay and the higher layer of Dundry hill’s oolitic limestone – this allowed wells to be sunk for them, with a reliable supply.The farmhouses North Hill Farm and Walnut Farm were built in the late 19th century on the hamlet’s higher and flatter land – more suitable than the steeper land of the original farms, such as that at the current North Hill Cottage.