Flintshire 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…
Flintshire 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…
Flintshire 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…
Flintshire 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…
Flintshire 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…
Flintshire 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…
Flintshire 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…
