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Visiting Pabo's Well, at Llanbabo, Ynys Môn. A fascinating large two part roadside farm well wellhopper.wales/2024/04/12/pab…

St Winefride’s Chapel and Holy Well #Flintshire . Not a #fontsonfriday but a holy well that is said to have sprung up from the spot where the C7th martyr St Winefrid was brought back to life by St Beuno. The chapel set into the hillside above the spring dates from the late C15th.

After scrambling around an overgrown churchyard surrounding an abandoned church, we found St Canna's Chair/Stone!

Henllan Church would make a prime #pilgrimage site in Carmarthenshire.

A holy well is under the church too.

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Not what I was expecting to see attached to a well in rural Oxfordshire

Ffynnon Fair ac Ynys Enlli.

If only this survived. #StMarysWell #HayOnWye

Wici Cymru Yn ol arfer draddodiadol newyddiaduraeth wych Gymreig… San Steffan,San Steffan, San Steffan,San Steffan..😩

Ffynnon Dyfnog at Llanrhaedr-yng-Nghinmeirch. Quite the most beautiful holy well. Restored to glory by the Friends of st Dyfnog's Well. The chill waters are said to heal scab, itchs, the pox, deafness and dumbness. It certainly cures the blues. Visit Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Today is the feast day of St Chad, the patron saint of Lichfield, who died on this day in 672. On the outskirts of the city is a well, associated with the sacred spring where he was said to stand on a stone and pray. In recent years, the tradition of well dressing has restarted.

A tranquil St Cybi’s Well this morning

Dyma ddiddorol iawn.

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Ffynnon Aelrhiw holy well at Rhiw in North Wales. In the medieval period and maybe earlier, people visited such wells because they believed the water had a healing effect. This holy well was one of the final stopping off places on the pilgrim’s route to Bardsey Island.

Further to my previous tweets about the layout of the numbers in a year, absolutely wild 1909 in this one 👇

The natural spring that feeds Chedworth Roman Villa has been flowing for thousands of years. It was the life source of the Villa during Roman times, feeding the kitchens, bath houses & latrine. We still use this water on site today & during #halfterm , you'll be able to taste it!

Rhybuddiol a diddorol. Er bod fandaliaeth fwriadol yn anghyffredin, collir llawer o ffynhonnau trwy esgeulusdod, difaterwch ac anwybodaeth. Sefydlwyd Cymdeithas Ffynhonnau Cymru i geisio addysgu a diogelu.

This is the crypt of the Holy Cross Church in Dalby, Sweden. It was built in ca 1060s in then Medieval Denmark, adjacent to a King's Manor and housed a Bishop, competing with a Bishop in nearby Lund for supremacy. To the right you can see a well/spring, possibly used for baptisms

🌳 Legend speaks of the Blessed Virgin Mary's statue miraculously appearing in an oak tree near Ffynnon Fair. Resisting all attempts to be removed, it finally yielded when a chapel was built on Cefn Penrhys.

The Wardle family went into exile in Italy following financial and political scandals involving her father. She married Edward Morgan of Golden Grove Flintshire in Florence in 1827 and died 10 days after the birth of their first child.