Denbighshire – Well Hopper

A Welsh Gretna Green?

3 Jul 202028 Jul 2020

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…

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…

Henllan

30 May 201410 Jun 2014

It is some three years since we visited Henllan to find Ffynnon Wen, what would appear to have been an eighteenth century bathing house on the banks of the river…

Ffynnon Farchell, Denbigh

5 Mar 201312 Nov 2019

St Marcella's Well There are some wells high up in snow covered mountains, others lie in sun dappled, tree lined valleys. Some wells are so long forgotten that their location…

Ffynnon Ifan, Cerrigydrudion

8 Jun 201212 Mar 2013

Ffynnon Ifan lies on the slopes of Mynydd Hiraethog, on the path from Cefn Brith to the Alwen Reservoir above Cerrigydrudion. It is clearly marked on the current OS maps,…

Ffynnon Beuno, Gwyddelwern

28 Feb 201226 Mar 2013

St Beuno's Well Beuno seems to have been one of Wales’ most peripatetic of saints, travelling the length and breadth of the country practising his particular speciality of replacing severed…

Ffynnon Fair, Cefn Meiriadog

26 Feb 20129 Jul 2020

Please note : I have recently had contact from the owners of the well. They have had considerable problems with gates being left open and livestock being endangered and have…

Ffynnon Sulien, Corwen

16 Feb 201213 Jun 2014

St Sulien's Well So after visiting Cwm, and the church and well dedicated to the saints Sulien and Mael, it was purely by coincidence that the following week we headed up…

Vicarage Spring and Ffynnon Bwbach, Cwm

14 Feb 201212 Mar 2013

Cwm, near Dyserth could be a well hunter’s paradise, it is claimed that there are around 127 in the parish, although few are named and have any tradition attached. We…

Ffynnon Asa, Cwm

6 Feb 201230 Jul 2018

There must have been a time when Ffynnon Asa, one of several wells in the area dedicated to St Asaph, was as spectacular as other local wells such as St Winefride's…