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St. Tewdric's Well

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St. Tewdric's Well
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By tradition at this spring King Tewdric's wounds were washed after the battle near Tintern about 470 A.D. against the Pagan Saxons. He died a short way off and by his wishes a church was built over his grave (now Mathern Church).

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