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Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: St George's Well (Edinburgh) Alternative Name: Inky WellCountry: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 0.613 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Midlothian Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Edinburgh
Map Ref: NT2440174070
Latitude: 55.953685N Longitude: 3.212275W
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 |
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Anne T visited on 17th Dec 2015 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 2 Access: 4 St George's Well, Edinburgh: An easy walk along the Water of Leith walkway. I wouldn't have recognised this as a well without the Portal. It looks like a very run down stone gardener's house, complete with chimney, sitting between the walkway and the river, which was running very high at the time of my visit. The iron gate was unbolted but the door to the well house was locked. The area surrounding this little building was heavily littered, not only with general rubbish but lots of empty cans and bottles - in dire need of a clean up.
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St George’s Well is on the Water of Leith Walkway in Edinburgh on the same bank of the Leith and just to the south of St Bernard’s Well.
For more information see Canmore ID 133173 which simply dates the well (housing?) to 1810.
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