<< Our Photo Pages >> White Well (Breidden Hill) - Holy Well or Sacred Spring in Wales in Powys
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Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: White Well (Breidden Hill)Country: Wales County: Powys Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Welshpool Nearest Village: Trewern
Map Ref: SJ298144
Latitude: 52.722674N Longitude: 3.040813W
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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White Well is a long, hard walk up the footpath to Rodney's Pillar on the top of Breidden Hill.
Where the path cuts straight up a gulley which should, but doesn't always, have a stream running along the bottom, watch for the point where you have to cross a field boundary over a stile. Just hidden from view by trees and bushes, and right by the path, is White Well, a small pool a few feet across scattered with various lumps of stone.
Nothing is known about this site: it appears on the Ordnance map, but that's it. I did spot a stone a few feet away which looks strangely regular, as though is was worked and part of a pillar - but it stretches credulity to imagine there was any structure at this well in such a remote location.
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