Category: Ancient Sites

According to The Legendary Lore of the Holy Wells of England by Robert Charles Hope (1893),’ A small town on the left-hand side of the road leading from Cockermouth to Egremont, and near the...

According to The Legendary Lore of the Holy Wells of England by Robert Charles Hope (1893),’About half a mile from the town is a spring of exceedingly pure water, which is supposed to possess...

There was formerly a well in the glebe field near the church, by some called the Bishop’s Well. [The Legendary Lore of the Holy Wells of England by Robert Charles Hope (1893)]

According to The Legendary Lore of the Holy Wells of England by Robert Charles Hope (1893), ‘The parvise over the porch of St. Margaret’s Church is known as the “Maids’ Chamber,” in consequence of...

Robert Charles Hope recounts the following tale of the Moor Well in The Legendary Lore of the Holy Wells (1893). ‘The boundaries of the parish were marked by a series of wells, which used...

In Greystoke, about a mile away on the borders of this parish, there seemed to be a most interesting memorial of St. Kentigern in a well much visited by strangers and farmers called “Thanet...

According to The Legendary Lore of the Holy Wells of England by Robert Charles Hope (1893), ‘WHILE the body of St. Kenelm was being brought to Winchcombe, the bearers, becoming very weary and thirsty,...