About 1730 Pancras Wells seem to have regained their reputation; at any rate they were industriously advertised, and the London print-dealers sold views of the gardens and the rooms. The water could be obtained at the pump-room, or a dozen bottles of it might be purchased for six shillings of Mr. Richard Bristow, goldsmith.[126] At this time, and for forty or fifty years later, the surroundings of the Wells were completely rural, and visitors might be seen coming across the fields by the foot-paths leading from Tottenham Court, Gray’s Inn, and Islington. The gardens and premises had now (1730) reached their full extent. Facing the church was the House of Entertainment, and behind this was the Long Room (sixty feet by eighteen) with the Pump Room at its west end. The gardens lay further south, in the rear of these and other buildings. A pleasant stroll might be taken in the New Plantation or in the shaded, but formal, garden known as the Old Walk. Little is heard of the Wells during the next thirty or forty years. But in June 1769 the proprietor, John Armstrong, advertised the water as being in the greatest perfection. The place, however, was probably now chiefly frequented as a “genteel and rural” tea garden, with its hot loaves, syllabubs, and milk from the cow. Dinners were also obtainable, and the powerful refreshments of “neat wines, curious punch, Dorchester, Marlborough, and Ringwood beers.” [Illustration: BILL OF PANCRAS WELLS, _circ._ 1730, SHOWING THE WELLS, AND THE ADAM AND EVE TAVERN NEAR ST. PANCRAS CHURCH.] According to Lysons, the Pancras water continued in esteem till some years before 1795, but when he wrote (1795–1811) the Well appears to have been enclosed in the garden of a private house. Part of the site of the old Wells and walks was formerly occupied by the houses in Church Row, but these have been swept away for the premises of the Midland Railway connected with the St. Pancras Terminus.[127] [T. Brown’s _Letters from the Dead to the Living_, part ii. first published 1702, “Moll Quarles to Mother Creswell”; Dodsley’s _London_, 1761, s.v. “Pancras”; Lysons’s _Environs_, iii. (1795), p. 381; Supplement (1811), p. 283; _Gent. Mag._ 1813, pt. 2, p. 556; _Beauties of England and Wales_, x. part iv. (1816), p. 175; Clinch’s _Marylebone and St. Pancras_; Palmer’s _St. Pancras_; Miller’s _St. Pancras_; Roffe’s _St. Pancras_ (1865), p. 10; Lewis’s _Islington_, p. 37, note; Walford, v. 339.] VIEWS. 1. A bird’s-eye view of St. Pancras Wells, showing the garden, house, &c., the old church, &c., with a description of the mineral waters. A tinted drawing, 1751, Crace, _Cat._ p. 580, No. 57. The original engraving is of _circ._ 1730; _see_ Palmer’s _St. Pancras_, p. 246, ff.; Clinch’s _Marylebone_, p. 156; Walford, v. 336.