<< Our Photo Pages >> Ffynnon Enddwyn - Holy Well or Sacred Spring in Wales in Gwynedd
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Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Ffynnon Enddwyn Alternative Name: St Enddwyn's WellCountry: Wales County: Gwynedd Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Harlech Nearest Village: Dyffryn Ardudwy
Map Ref: SH61372552
Latitude: 52.809356N Longitude: 4.058153W
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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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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wombat33 visited on 22nd Jun 2013 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 5 My partner's sister took her husband to cure his deafness. This appear to be working. I have severe PN in my feet - this is Peripheral Neuropathy - like the pain you get when your hand returns to normal after getting freezing cold. I dipped both my feet in the spring and I believe some feeling may be returning ........
I live in a healing place in Herefordshire and can telll when everything is as it should be.
I'd be interested in other people's experiences of healing sites.
Penbron PAB have visited here
Although marked on OS as simply 'spring', this site has a village and church nearby testifying to it having been held sacred for a very long time. The information board at the site reads:
“Tradition says that St Enddwyn was afflicted with a ‘sore disease’. One day, journeying to Trawsfynydd, she bathed and refreshed herself in the well and was cured. The well was afterwards known as Fynnon Enddwyn. Sick folk from all parts resorted to it to be cured from gland related illnesses, skin diseases, sore eyes, and arthritis. It was a tradition to drink the water, and apply some of the moss that grew beside the well as a plaster. People left their crutches and sticks behind as tokens of their restoration, and others threw pins into the well to ward off evil spirits.”
It seems that little else is known about St Enddwyn – but the village named after her remains 4km SW, as does the local respect for the spring. There is easy parking 100m west at a viewpoint marked on OS, and there is a sign at the access gate. The informative series of leaflets on circular walks from the Cambrian Line railway includes the well/spring as a suggested stop...even if you are not walking all the way to Transfynydd like St Enddwyn was!
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