What is recorded here

Holy wells have always belonged to touch and memory rather than distance. In Newtown the water may have filled cups, cleaned wounds or marked a boundary between the living world and the dead. People probably came there at dawn, when mist still hung above the grass, and left with something changed. The well does not need a grand story because it is the kind of place where small prayers still count.

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