
What is recorded here
St John's Well, Troutbeck, Cumbria is shown and named in a reusable Geograph picture. The saved point is the picture's recorded map point.
St John's Well in Troutbeck, Cumbria, is associated with St John the Baptist and was historically visited for its supposed healing properties, particularly for ailments of the eyes and skin. The well, like many in the British Isles, may have originally been a site of pagan worship before being Christianised.
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Photo: Christine Matthews · CC BY-SA 2.0