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St. Helen's Well

Old or holy well
St. Helen's Well
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St. Helen's Well is shown and named in a reusable Geograph picture. The saved point is the picture's recorded map point.
St. Helen's Well is associated with St. Helen, mother of the 4th-century Christian Roman Emperor Constantine, venerated in various parts of Britain for her role in early Christianity. Traditionally linked to healing and fertility, such wells were often sites of pilgrimage and offerings in pre-Reformation and folk religious practices.

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Photo: Jonathan Thacker · CC BY-SA 2.0