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Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Physic Well (Kells)Country: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 0.719 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Dumfries and Galloway Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: New Galloway
Map Ref: NX6270677877
Latitude: 55.076301N Longitude: 4.152003W
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 Dumfries and Galloway
This well is not recorded on Canmore, but is described by the Can You Dig It: Lost Wells of Galloway (LWoG) project. Their researcher, Samantha Oakley, tells us: The site of Physic Well sits along the Mill Burn to the west of New Galloway. It only appears on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey 6-inch map of 1853."
LWoG goes onto say: "The Ordnance Survey name book .... describes it as 'a spring well on the farm of Millbank. It was formerly resorted to by diseased persons, who were superstitious enough to think its water possessed the virtue of healing. It is not a mineral well'."
Samantha adds: "researcher also wondered if this was a reference to it in Witchcraft and Folk Belief in the Age of Enlightenment: Scotland, 1670-1740 by Lizanne Henderson (2106, p285): 'An interesting example indicates that professionals occasionally made use of folk cures. Robert Trotter (c 1736-1815), known as the Muir Doctor, was based in the Glenkilns. He often sent his patients to the physic well in the New Galloway parks'."
If anyone has visited this well and have photographs or more information about it, particularly about any properties or cures the water may have offered, we'd welcome contributions to this site page.
The Lost Wells of Galloway project is a community project, "setting out to map and better understand lost wells in Galloway, considering how we relate to these historic features now and how this has changed over time".
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