<< Text Pages >> St Bunyan's Well (Leuchars) - Holy Well or Sacred Spring in Scotland in Fife
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Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: St Bunyan''s Well (Leuchars)Country: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 2.889 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Fife Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Leuchars
Map Ref: NO4525221483
Latitude: 56.382445N Longitude: 2.888185W
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
| 0 | no data |
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Holy Well or Sacred Spring in Fife
The Northern Antiquarian (TNA) features a page for this holy well - see their entry for St Bunyan’s Well, Leuchars, Fife, which gives directions for finding this site, together with photographs, a brief archaeology & history and references.
TNA quotes from the Ordnance Survey Name Book: "In the village of Leuchars. A excellent Spring Well in the village of Leuchars it is built round with cut stones, and is Kept in good repair by the inhabitants. the date when it was first Constructed is not known but it said to have been before the reformation, dedicated to St. Bunyan hence its name."
TNA adds: "An elderly couple whom I met remembered a small well-house, but I didn’t ask them when it was demolished. The Saint is remembered in Leuchars by the road name of a modern development in St Bunyan’s Place. St Bunyan’s Well probably dried up as a result of the increased water demand following the establishment of RAF Leuchars in 1920. The Saint now has his waters extracted by Scottish Water’s Meadow Road Pumping Station."
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