St Beuno – Well Hopper

Ffynnon Sanctaidd, Carnguwch

The Nefyn road out of Llanaelhaearn climbs steeply up towards Bwlch yr Eifl. On the right rises Tre’r Ceiri, which so often as we pass seems to be cloaked in…

Ffynnon Beuno, Tremeirchion

7 May 201430 Aug 2015

Another Beuno’s Well, this time at Tremeirchion which lies a mile or so to the north of Bodfari, between the A55 and A541 and sitting directly on the pilgrims’ trail…

Ffynnon Beuno, Bala

31 Jan 201421 Dec 2017

It was a wet, a particularly wet, January Saturday afternoon in Bala. I had driven up to watch my team Cefn Druids take on the mighty Premier League Bala Town…

St Beuno’s Well, Holywell

19 Jun 201326 Jun 2016

There are days when you begin to imagine that St Beuno was in the franchise business. His wells seem to have branches everywhere, from Gwyddelwern to Clynnog, from Bala to…

Ffynnon Beuno, Clynnog Fawr

23 Jan 201313 Aug 2014

St Beuno's Well The well dedicated to St Beuno at Clynnog Fawr is amongst the finest of a considerable number of wells dedicated to the saint across Wales. It was…

Ffynnon Aelhaearn, Llanaelhaearn

2 Oct 20128 Sep 2014

St Aelhaearn's Well Ffynnon Aelhaearn is locked, very definitely closed for business.. A small stone building by the roadside out of Llanaelhaearn towards Nefyn proudly displays its name, but pilgrims…

St Winefride’s Well, Holywell

22 Jun 201219 Jun 2013

It would not be possible to keep a blog on the holy wells of North Wales without reference to St Winefride’s Well at Holywell; however it would be difficult to say anything new…

Ffynnon Ddeuno, Broughton

22 Mar 201212 Mar 2013

Ffynnon Ddeuno stood on the Gatewen Estate near Broughton until it vanished from view under the spoil heap from a nearby coalmine. The name of the well, or at least…

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…