Where we live it is specifically forbidden. A couple of companies still do brine mining for salt, and all the houses around here have no mineral or mining rights. We are allowed to dig as far as necessary for building foundations, no deeper. The point is, these restrictions are in the house deeds, not held by the local council. Might be worth just looking over your property deeds for any restrictions.
There are quite a few videos on youtube regarding digging shallow wells suitable for irrigation, they are mainly from USA people as their government don't see the need to be a (nanny state) and let them get on with it.
Barry island, yes sure, I've looked already at many such YouTube videos. I was hoping to find here someone who says like "I've done this myself, this is what I did, what worked and what didn't, issues found, solutions, and what I'd different next times, etc etc". Having said that, thanks everybody for the discussion so far.
If you have a 'Hire Service' shop nearby, they'll probably have drills/augurs available for supply to farmers etc. who need to sink fence posts and small building supports on their farms. These are normally petrol driven, so a quick query as to how deep theirs go would give you a starting figure to see whether your idea is practicable?
Trying to dig down to find a water source when you have no idea either where it would be, or how deep is a very bad idea. To go down 10 metres you would probably need a hole a couple of metres across and that would require boarding to prevent soil collapse. Leave it to the experts.
I wouldn't think an auger of the type used to sink fence posts would go deep enough, and you still have the issue of knowing where to drill in the first place anyway.
On second thoughts I'm a bit surprised at the 'advice' you got locally. When I used to drive coaches to Germany, we used to have refuelling facilities with friendly local operators BUT, if we needed to wash the vehicle down, it was common courtesy to ask for permission to use their hosepipe as water was strictly controlled and paid for via a metering system.
OH’s dad dug his own well on the farm, 14’ deep, apparently he was cursing the water diviner who assured him the water was there, It was, But a lot of work to get there. They’ve extended our hosepipe to ban to cover all of Devon as well as Cornwall now so perhaps we’d all better think of digging one.
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yes sure, I've looked already at many such YouTube videos.
I was hoping to find here someone who says like "I've done this myself, this is what I did, what worked and what didn't, issues found, solutions,
and what I'd different next times, etc etc".
Having said that, thanks everybody for the discussion so far.
They’ve extended our hosepipe to ban to cover all of Devon as well as Cornwall now so perhaps we’d all better think of digging one.