Gwynedd – Well Hopper

Ffynnon Dderfel, Llandderfel, Bala

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…

Ffynnon y Gwaenydd, Chwilog, Llanystumdwy

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…

Ffynnon Cybi Bach, Nefyn

Ffynnon Cybi Bach, lies in the shadow of Garn Boduan, to the left of the A497 as you leave Nefyn towards Pwllheli. The recently inaugurated long distance footpath Llwybr y…

Ffynnon Beuno, Llanwnda

24 Feb 201813 Oct 2018

There really can’t be many wells this remote that are so conveniently reached by public transport, but Ffynnon Beuno here in the hills above Bontnewydd is only a couple of…

Ffynnon Saint, Criccieth

12 Feb 201813 Oct 2018

For a well with so little remaining substance or recent history, Ffynnon Saint in Criccieth is remarkably well signposted. It lies (lay) at one end of Holywell Terrace and the…

Ffynnon Beuno, Penmorfa, Porthmadog

5 Feb 201813 Feb 2018

There is a very clear theme running through our reporting of Beuno’s wells and I risk becoming very repetitive. The last one we saw, at Aberffraw, had disappeared under a…

Three Mynytho Wells

28 Oct 201713 Oct 2018

A misty moisty morning in Mynytho, at the tip of the Llŷn Peninsula near Abersoch, searching out another group of wells was the catalyst for a rare bout of philosophising…

Ffynnon Gadfarch, Abererch

15 Oct 201716 Oct 2017

This item will be necessarily brief, In the words of Lewis Carroll “I’ll tell thee everything I can, There’s little to relate....” Ffynnon Gadfarch is one of those saints wells…

Ffynnon Rhedyw, Llanllyfni

22 Jul 20177 Aug 2017

After a forced, unexpectedly long, hiatus we are back on the road; the road today being the A487 from Bangor to Fishguard which has already led us past our previous…

Ffynnon Fair, Llanfair-is-gaer

7 Jan 20172 Jan 2020

Note that this post predates the start of construction of the Caernarfon Bypass. This well lies very close to the route of the bypass and the fate of the well…