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St Cuthbert's Well

Holy Well (medieval)

What is recorded here

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records St Cuthbert's Well as Holy Well (medieval). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 10m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
St Cuthbert's Well is associated with St Cuthbert, an 7th-century Northumbrian monk and saint venerated in northern England and southern Scotland. Traditionally linked to healing and pilgrimage, such wells were often sites of local devotion and may have been used for ritual washing or drinking cures.

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