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Luston Holy Well
Trip No.169 Entry No.1 Date Added: 8th Aug 2021
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Herefordshire)
Visited: Yes on 14th Jul 2021. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Luston Holy Well submitted by jfarrar on 22nd Dec 2014. Holy Well in centre of the village. Was the village water supply until the mains arrived in 1950
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Log Text: Luston Holy Well: This well is not shown on the HE map search, or listed on the HE Research Records or Herefordshire SMR. It is located at the corner of the B4361 and Eye Lane.
We parked on Townsend Park, opposite the well and walked across the road.
There is a plaque on the north eastern corner of the well proclaiming it to be a holy well. Can’t (yet) find out any more information about it.
The handle of the pump had been chained and padlocked in place. We couldn’t hear any water flowing, and looking down the drain cover, the water was stagnant.
St John the Baptist (Hope Bagot)
Trip No.169 Entry No.2 Date Added: 8th Aug 2021
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Shropshire)
Visited: Yes on 15th Jul 2021. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
St John the Baptist (Hope Bagot) submitted by TimPrevett on 23rd Sep 2007. The yew certainly adds a heavy ambience to the place. I found it a little creepy myself, but interestingly enough, it has many clouties - the most I've seen on a well outside of Cornwall. (Lots more not visible in this photo).
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Log Text: St John The Baptist, Hope Bagot: We parked in the village hall car park, about the only place in the village we could leave the car, as the lanes here were so narrow. The church was very difficult to spot from the road, but thankfully, a sign in the village hall car park pointed us up some steps, through a gate and straight into the churchyard.
What an unusual old church, very reminiscent of Escomb Saxon Church. Just as we entered the churchyard, we met the Church Warden's wife, who stopped to talk to us, and told us how to find the well (underneath a yew tree at the northern side of the churchyard (approaching the church from the north, there is a wooden gate into the churchyard; come through this gate and take the small path to your right hand side. This leads the 20m or so to the well).
There is also a Victorian well head at SO 58858 74092. The Church Warden's wife told us there were a number of springs in the village.
St Milburga's Well (Stoke St Milborough)
Trip No.169 Entry No.3 Date Added: 9th Aug 2021
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Shropshire)
Visited: Yes on 15th Jul 2021. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
St Milburga's Well (Stoke St Milborough) submitted by TimPrevett on 23rd Sep 2007. The superlative St Milburga's Well at Stoke St Milborough. One of the best I have visited. It is situated in its own enclosure to the immediate adjacent west of the road which arcs to the east of the village.
The flow is the strongest I have observed on any holy well, coming through a pipe at the bottom of a flight of steps. A standpipe stands outside the enclosure, and with a turn of the knob, yields water.
Pay attention to the latch on the gate and head on the handrail, too.
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Log Text: St Milburga's Well, Stoke St Milborough: We visited the church first of all, and whilst some of the church dates from the 13th century, there was little of this in evidence, the fabric having been restored in Victorian times. The church had been left open, so we looked inside, but not much of note, apart from the lovely geese (I thought they were ducks until I saw the official records) carved into the top of the wooden door into the base of the tower at the west end.
Not having a map for this area, we thought the holy well might be near to the church, but thankfully bumped into the church warden as we exited the church. He was carrying a large wooden stake and hammer, so I joked with him "are you hunting vampires?". It turned out he was marking out a burial plot for a recently deceased villager.
He directed us to the well, but told us that "thanks to the water company, there's very little left of the well". Coming out of the churchyard, we headed south on the minor road, then turned left and headed up the hill, following the road round to the left as it levelled off. Just round this bend, there was a gate into the well enclosure. Steps led down to the well head, which still exists, together with a small well pool and a lively outflow into a stream which heads westwards, back towards the church.
A very peaceful spot. Just a shame about the modern domestic water apparatus next to the well.
Crossfoot Farm Standing Stone
Trip No.169 Entry No.5 Date Added: 9th Aug 2021
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Wales (Powys)
Visited: Couldn't find on 15th Jul 2021. My rating: Ambience 3 Access 4
Crossfoot Farm Standing Stone submitted by jfarrar on 18th May 2019. Standing stone north of Clyro in a private field.
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Log Text: Crossfoot Farm Standing Stone: We tried to find this stone, and even hopped across the gate into the field which the OS map shows it in, but no standing stone was visible.
The field is next to a building site and it looks as if the field was being used to store both materials and rubble, making the field very difficult to walk across.
We think the stone now may have fallen, and may be in an area of unmown grass, so is not visible from the highly chained and padlocked gate into the field.