Flintshire – Page 2 – Well Hopper

Ffynnon Wyryd, Caerwys

23 Jan 201212 Mar 2013

It's very difficult to get excited about Ffynnon Wyryd, It's one of those wells that you have to see, to tick off because it's on the list; but why it's…

Ffynnon Barris, Hope

20 Nov 201128 Mar 2013

Ffynnon Barris at Hope is generally known as the Pigeon House Well, being close to Pigeon House Farm. It merits a mention as Ffynnon Barris in Lhuyd (1699) and in…

St Michael’s Well, Cilcain

14 Nov 201112 Mar 2013

From documentation on the internet it appears that there was a concerted effort to restore Cilcain's St Michaels Well (Ffynnon Mihangel) during the late 1990s and the early part of…

Ffynnon Fair, Ysceifiog

1 Nov 201112 Mar 2013

There are, apparently, some seven or eight Ffynnonau Fair, St Mary's Wells, in Flintshire. So after hunting around for one at Halkyn we drove on a short distance to Ysceifiog…

St Mary’s Well, Halkyn

31 Oct 201112 Mar 2013

We expected our visit to Halkyn to be brief and unsuccessful, but it turned out that we spent well over an hour wandering around this fascinating and haunting location. Halkyn…

St Oswald’s Well, Whitford

14 Jun 201112 Mar 2013

St Oswald's Well (Ffynnon Oswallt) at Whitford, Flintshire is now hidden behind a brick construction. The well is in the side of a bank adjacent to Mertyn Cottage. We first visited…

St Michael’s Well, Caerwys

3 Jun 20118 Apr 2013

St Michael’s Well is the sacred well of the Caerwys Church, also dedicated to St Michael. It was described in 1912 as " A natural basin of limestone, about 12…

Ffynnon Leinw, Cilcain

1 Jun 201112 Mar 2013

Ffynnon Leinw was noted as a tidal well in which the water ebbed and flowed on a regular basis. The name Leinw is supposedly derived from the Welsh Llanw meaning…