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Service Station on the A5026 at the turning for Carmel.
©Roger May
Dist:0.2km<br/>A view looking to the southeast along the line of an old mineral tramway, which now forms a public footpath from the Holway to St. Winefrides Well, via Level Lane. When I was a youth, this was one large field, the community centre to the right not having been built. At left is the track up to Moor Farm, and a public footpath to Maes Glas (Greenfield).
©Phil Williams
Dist:0.2km<br/>A view looking south towards the artwork on the community centre on the Holway estate. The grass area in the foreground is a remnant of a mineral tramway and now forms part of a public footpath to St. Winefides Well.
©Phil Williams
Dist:0.4km<br/>A view looking south from a field entrance on the track to Moor Farm, showing the Holway estate and Pen-y-Ball hill behind.
©Phil Williams
Dist:0.8km<br/>A view looking east along the public footpath over The Moor, towards the Dee estuary and the Wirral in the distance.
©Phil Williams
Dist:1.0km<br/>Church and stone cottage in the village of Carmel
©Dot Potter
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©J M Briscoe
Dist:1.0km south<br/>This monument above Holywell commemorates the marriage, coronation and silver jubilee of George V.
©David and Rachel Landin
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©Peter Craine
Dist:1.0km east<br/>The source of the spring, which rises in a star-shaped basin surrounded by an ambulatory. This is one of the "Seven Wonders of Wales" according to the old rhyme.
©Eirian Evans
Dist:1.0km east<br/>Looking down from the roadside on a flight of steps below St Winefride's Chapel/Capel Gwenffrewi. http://www.saintwinefrideswell.com/ There is an early bench mark on the wall below the iron handrail near the bottom of the steps [[2268232]]. The buildings surrounding St Winefride's Well are Grade II listed.
©John S Turner
Dist:1.0km east<br/>This bench mark is above a flight of steps below the north-west corner of St Winefride's Chapel/Capel Gwenffrewi. Although it is in very good condition the only reference I can find to this mark is on the 1871 Town Plan. This photo was taken from the roadside looking down the steps, but a better view may be obtained by paying the modest entrance fee to enter the historic site. http://www.saintwinefrideswell.com/ See also [[2268261]]
©John S Turner
Dist:1.0km east<br/>The holy well that gives the area its name with a church above.
©Jeremy Bolwell
Dist:1.0km northwest<br/>This picture was taken from the A5026 looking NE at Golch Farm, the Dee estuary can be seen in the distance.
©Dave Smethurst
Dist:1.0km east<br/>This well has been the site of pilgrimages for over 1400 years, and it is known as the Welsh Lourdes. Winefride was the beautiful young woman who was decapitated when she spurned the attentions of Caradoc, the son of a neithbouring prince. Legend has it that a spring gushed forth from where her head fell; she was miraculously brought back to life by St Beuno. The tented canopies on the right of the photo are for pilgrims to change before descending into the holy water. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15656a.htm
©Eirian Evans

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