<< Text Pages >> Marion's Well (Falkirk) - Holy Well or Sacred Spring in Scotland in Perth and Kinross
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Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Marion's Well (Falkirk)Country: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 2.99 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Perth and Kinross Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Falkirk
Map Ref: NS89267977
Latitude: 55.998053N Longitude: 3.777139W
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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Holy Well or Sacred Spring in Perth and Kinross
The Northern Antiquarian (TNA) features a page for this healing well, now destroyed - see their entry for Marion’s Well, Falkirk, Stirlingshire.
TNA include an image of the 1864 OS map, with the location of Marion's Well marked on it, together with a photograph from around 1900, after the well had been moved to the south side of Callendar Road. TNA note that the well was an important source of water in early times, and its waters used to supply a washing house close by.
TNA add: “Of Marion’s Well there is scant record. According to tradition it got its name from Marion Livingston—a nun of the house of Callendar who, in the performance of the sacerdotal vow which kept her from the world, visited the well at intervals and used its soft waters as a pediluvium. The original well which was built round with stone, stood at the bottom of the Cladden’s Brae, on the bank of the East Burn. It was further protected by a circle of upright slabs—the great resting place of the water maids and the scene of many a happy ‘touzle’ as the stoups or pitchers were sent rolling and rattling down into the brawling brook.” (touzle is apparently a local term for a meeting place for young lovers!)
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