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Re: Cloutie Well by Anonymous on Wednesday, 02 November 2005

Well worth the trip,Information board in the car park suggests that St Boniface was also Known as Curitan, Boniface being the Romanised version of Curitan. There is another St Boniface's Well at the other end of Britain. Now lost, but marked on old maps of Boniface Down, above Bonchurch, Isle Of Wight. Strange feeling at the cloutie Well, we always leave a cloutie of tissue paper, but the excess of man made fibres draped in trees reminded me of a corner close to our local tip, where plastic bag clouties seem to be the norm. However the urge to leave something must take over the odd visitor and if the blouses shoes and other clothes have meaning then the item is only a symbol of that meaning, and they follow in the steps of our ancesters.

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