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Dist:0.1km<br/>One of the Seven Wonders of Wales The actual place where the cold spring water bubbles up. The legend of St Winefride tells how in 660AD, an enraged local chieftain severed the head of the young Winefride after she spurned his advances, how a spring rose from the ground at the spot where her head fell and how she was later restored to life by her uncle, St Beuno. The spring became renowned for its healing powers and throughout the centuries and even until today, pilgrims travel here in their thousands from all over the world to bathe in its waters and worship at its shrine that has become known as the Lourdes of Wales.
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Dist:0.2km<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
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Dist:0.2km<br/>16th C buildings adjacent to the site of well in Holywell
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Dist:0.2km<br/>The ivy is creeping up that chimney stack.
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Dist:0.2km<br/>The Welsh answer to Lourdes. Long been a site of pilgrimage.
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Dist:0.2km<br/>I like a bit of gate-age.
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Dist:0.2km<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.
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Dist:0.2km<br/>The holy well that gives the area its name with a church above.
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Dist:0.2km<br/>The valley was once a very busy industrial area with factories, battery works, rolling mills, wire works, a railway line and various waterworks to feed the industries.
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Dist:0.2km<br/>Note the changing booths for bathers taking the waters.
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Dist:0.2km<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.
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Dist:0.2km<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:0.2km<br/>Looking up towards the church of St James, which is positioned above St Winefrede's Well. There is an early bench mark and bolt on the prominent buttress on the church tower [[2262979]].
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