St Wita’s well, Whitchurch Canonicorum, Dorset
St Wita’s well, Whitchurch Canonicorum, Dorset
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- Severed Heads and Sacred Waters – Anne Ross (illus. R.W. Feachem) Source Issue 5 Spring 1998
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- Ffynnon Fair, Llanfair-is-gaer and Ffynnon Ddeiniol, Bangor, Gwynedd by Howard Huws Source New Series No 4 Summer 1995
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- Facebook Group – Well blessings and dressings For calendar customs associated with wells and springs
- Facebook Group Friends of St Bede's Well A group dedicated to repairing Jarrow’s important well
- Friends of Hampston's Well, on the Wirral A group set up to repair and preserve
- Friends of Menacuddle Well Facebook Community
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- Holy, ancient and roadside wells of Warwickshire
- Irish holy wells blog An excellent growing guide to Ireland’s many holy wells
- Irish Well Hunters A group actively seeking out Irish wells – not that the other sites dont of course!
- Isle of Man Holy Well project linked to http://asmanxasthehills.com/isle-of-man-holy-wells-project/
- Isle of Man Wells site Isle of Man Wells researches wells and springs on the Island to provide a modern record of their location, condition and usage
- Journal of Antiquities A wide range of sites describes – a fair number of holy wells. Very informative and recommended.
- London’s Springs, Wells & Waterways Group for those interested in ancient, holy, healings springs and the rivers of the capital
- Madron well and chapel Facebook community
- Megalithic Portal – Holy Wells The excellent wiki which has holy wells from throughout the globe listed. Essential!
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- Sacred and Holy Wells of the Scottish boarders and beyond Facebook site
- Sacred Waters of Sussex – Facebook group
- Southampton Springs A nice blog focusing on springs, not necessarily healing or holy, in the English town. Worth a look!
- St Clether's Well facebook community
- St Ruffin's well restoration Facebook community Aiming to restore the lost holy well of St Ruffin
- The Chalice Well, Glastonbury, Somerset
- The Weeping Cross James Rattue Website by fellow knowledgable enthusiast, researcher and author James Rattue non holy well subject matter as well.
- Well dressing Excellent calendar and archive of Derbyshire styled, but not based, well dressing customs
- Well hopper -Welsh holy wells Cataloging the holy wells of the Welsh principality
- Wellspring Fellowship A site dedicated to pin pointing, promoting and preserving the holy wells of Wales
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