Editorial

 

Well researched: research articles (refereed/peer reviewed)

• Holy Wells and Other Holy Places by Jeremy Harte.

• First peer review by Jennifer Scherr, (EPNS).

• Second peer review by James Rattue, (author of The Living Stream).

 

Wells in depth: other quality articles on wells in a wide range of contexts

• The Documentation of Ffynnon Ddeier: some problems reconsidered by Tristan Gray Hulse.

*** TRISTAN’S ARTICLE IS IN PREPARATION AND WILL APPEAR SOON ***

• Wiltshire Healing Wells and the Strange Case of Purton Spa by Katy Jordan.

 

Dipping wells: factual site reports & descriptions

• Wells and Springs around Trellech by Stephanie Poultner.

• St Aldhelm’s well, Doulting, Somerset by Katy Jordan & Rich Pederick.

• A Gazetteer of Monmouthshire Wellsites by The Wellsprings Fellowship.

• IS there a Healing Well in Liberton? by Helen Williams.

 

Notes & queries: questions, observations, comments, letters, emails

• Are there any ‘holy wells’ associated with the Scandinavian Goddess Freya? from David Staveley.
• Salt: everything has its place by Bea Hopkinson.
• Pagan survivals by James Rattue.

 

Wholly well read: reviews of relevant literature new & old

• Taylor, Henry (1999). The ancient crosses and wells of Lancashire: a revised version. Vol. 1: Lonsdale hundred. Wigan: North West Catholic History Society. [Orig. pub. 1906].

• Thompson, Ian (1999). Lincolnshire springs & wells: a descriptive catalogue. Scunthorpe: Bluestone Books.

 

Well restored: organisations, initiatives, conservation/restoration projects

• A Village Well, Donhead St Mary, Wiltshire: introductory article by Katy Jordan with Penny Olson.

• The Wellsprings Fellowship.

 

News file: any news of a watery nature

• Previously unrecorded well in north Cornwall restored
• Worked flint fragments found scattered around St Helen’s Well, Barnburgh, Yorkshire
• Warnings that aquifers beneath Britain’s major cities are contaminated with industrial effluents
• Our Lady Well, Stirling disappears beneath new supermarket
• New well discovered near Padstow, Cornwall
• Sancreed well access issue still unresolved
• Concern over St Nectan’s Kieve, Cornwall
• Is the Virgin Mary buried on Anglesey?

• Editorial

 

Well researched: research articles (refereed/peer reviewed)

• Unfortunately there will be no peer reviewed articles in this issue as no articles of a suitable standard were received in time for the publishing deadline. However, flow will hopefully resume with Issue 3.

 

Wells in depth: other quality articles on wells in a wide range of contexts

• The Documentation of Ffynnon Ddeier: some problems reconsidered by Tristan Gray Hulse.

• Cenotés and Other Sacred Waters of the Americas by Gary R. Varner.

 

Dipping wells: factual site reports & descriptions

• The Wishing Well and Rock Hermitage at High Hurstwood by R. B. Parish.

• The Holy Well, or St Cloud’s Well at Longthorpe near Peterborough by R. B. Parish.

• The Ancient Springs of the Valley of the Sandbrook: a vignette by Julian Lea-Jones.

 

Notes & queries: questions, observations, comments, letters, emails

• Are there any ‘holy wells’ associated with the Scandinavian Goddess Freya? from David Staveley.

• A Nugget from the Walkworth Chronicle by Robert Carter.

• Who wrote ‘The Legend of the Holy Well Haw’ from David Bell.

• A call for St Helen’s wells, springs, churches and chapels from Gill Burns.

 

Wholly well read: reviews of relevant literature new & old

• Connolly, Susan & Moroney, Anne-Marie (1998). Stone and Tree Sheltering Water: an Exploration of Sacred and Secular Wells in County Louth. Drogheda: Flax Mill Publications.

• Hope, Robert (2000). Devon and Cornwall’s Holy Wells. Penzance: Oakmagic Publications. [Orig. Pub. 1893].

• Martin, Christina (2000). Holy Wells. Presteigne: Wooden Books.

• Rattue, James (2001). The Living Stream: holy wells in historical context.Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer Ltd.

 

Well restored: organisations, initiatives, conservation/restoration projects

• The Holy Well, Morvah: a well lost and found by Cheryl Straffon.

 

News file: any news of a watery nature

• Threatened ancient Jewish ritual bath in Bristol achieves protected status
• Jewish ritual bath discovered in London
• Baptismal pool restored in Alabama, USA
• Update on the Sancreed well access dispute
• Millenium marker stone placed at Cerne Abbas well
• Bodmin’s Holy Wells restored
• Pre-Christian Holy Well discovered in Yorkshire
• More trouble at Sancreed well
• Flow resumes at Madron baptistry well
• Temple of Apollo built on an intersection of geological fault lines
• Bronze Age ritual shaft or backfilled well?
• Five more wells to visit in Cornwall…
• …But one is lost!
• A spring is the focus of a Neolithic ritual site discovered in Wales
• Another St Helen’s Well found in Yorkshire
• Chedworth Roman complex reinterpreted

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