RBR landmark #3 for Bath & NE Somerset required finding the "Jack & Jill Hill" stone within the village of Kilmersdon, which claims to have the hill and well to which the rhyme refers! I walked up the steep hill, and think that Jack probably collapsed from exhaustion rather than just "falling" down! The path up the hill connects the village at the bottom to the primary school at the top, I can't imagine there are very few mums and children that walk up it everyday, most probable is the school lane to be full of cars, 4x4s and MPVs at school start/finish times.
There is and a more gruesome theory to the rhymes origins:
http://www.rhymes.org.uk/jack_and_jill.htm
Not the landmark so here's a pic of Somerset's very own Jack and Jill well!
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