Denbighshire A Welsh Gretna Green? 3 Jul 20203 May 2021 Ffynnon Fair (St Mary’s Well) at Wigfair, south of St Asaph, lies in open countryside in the broad valley of the River Elwy. Beside it lie the remains of a…
Conwy Ffynhonnau Asa – Llannefydd and Eglwysbach 4 Jun 20205 Jun 2020 Two wells for St Asaph in Conwy This will have to be my lock down post, we are still staying alert and travel within Wales is still limited to a…
Gwynedd Ffynnon Dderfel, Llandderfel, Bala 27 Mar 20202 Jun 2020 I have visited this well three or four times now but never, until now, managed to write down anything about it. I suppose I never fully managed to establish what…
Anglesey Church Well, Gwalchmai 1 Feb 20205 Feb 2020 The greatest bonus of posting about wells on the blog is the feedback I receive, particularly when it brings new information and new wells. Responses I had following writing my…
Anglesey Well by Holy Rood Church, Ceirchiog, Bryngwran 16 Nov 201916 Nov 2019 Without its history a holy well is just a well. It is generally supposed that the formal use of holy wells ended towards the end of the sixteenth century with…
Denbighshire Ffynnon y Galchog, Ruthin 3 Nov 201911 Nov 2019 A small waterfall – Pistyll y Galchog - which tumbles to the roadside, disappearing into a culvert, part of which is diverted through an old metal pipe into a roadside…
Anglesey Ffynnon Gorlas Llaingoch, Holyhead 12 Oct 201913 Oct 2019 Meanwhile, we return to Ynys Cybi, St Cybi’s island or Holy Island. Bingley in his 1798 Tour in Wales notes that the dividing channel between Anglesey and Holy Island is…
Anglesey Ffynnon Gyngar, Llangefni 28 Sep 201928 Sep 2019 Ffynnon Gyngar lies in The Dingle close to the church of St Cyngar in the centre of Llangefni. The Dingle is a landscaped valley through which the River Cefni flows.…
Gwynedd Ffynnon y Gwaenydd, Chwilog, Llanystumdwy 10 Sep 2019 We have very little source material to draw on for the story of Ffynnon y Gwaenydd which appears to lie beside the Afon Wen as it flows through Cwilog near…
Anglesey Ffynnon Cybi, Holyhead 19 Jul 201920 Jul 2019 Anglesey's wells seem to have a deep seated problem with transport planners. We have seen previously how, in the mid nineteenth century, Cybi's well at Clorach was seen as surplus…
