This well is NOT named after any saint and mentions of a St Guidel are wrong. Its name is recorded as Menequidel in 1250 and Menedcudel in 1284 and comes from the Old Cornish mened and cuydel and it means hillside with a small wood. (See Craig Weatherhill's book Place Names in Cornwall and Scilly", 2005It was also known as Pinni-menny. "This was, (and is now by a few) the name given to the little chapel-well near Trenance bridge, St. Austell. Young people wanting to know their fortune, dropped pins into the well and "wished."" (Jago"The Ancient Language and the Dialect of Cornwall" 1882)
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