Collinson’s Well

‘The church was dedicated in honour of St. John the Baptist. Little remains to tell either of the castle or well on Hutton Common, but both were popularly known as having been named after one Collinson. There was a tradition, with every probability of truth, that when King Charles marched his men on the road through this parish he turned aside and drank out of Collinson’s Well. He had been unable to connect these wells with the saint’s name to whom the churches were dedicated.‘ [The Legendary Lore of the Holy Wells of England by Robert Charles Hope (1893)]

There are no visible remains of Collin’s Castle which was thought to be ancient and described as being 100 yards square with a thirty foot wide ditch. According to the Topography of Great Britain by George Alexander Cooke, ‘no tradition either of its erection or demolition, is remembered.’