What is recorded here
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Straiton Green, Our Lady's Well as Holy Well (medieval). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1km. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
Linked to the veneration of the Virgin Mary, the well at Straiton Green was traditionally associated with healing and pilgrimage, common features of medieval Marian holy wells in Scotland. Local tradition may have connected it to miraculous cures or fertility rites, though specific folklore details are not well documented.
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Places near here
Straiton, Straiton Road, Callyr InnPublic House (19th Century) · 172 yd
StraitonCropmark(s) (period Unknown), Enclosure (period Unknown)(possible) · 272 yd
Straiton Park and RideNo Class (event) (period Unassigned) · 450 yd
Loanhead, Pentland Industrial Estate, Niven's Knowe Road, British Geological Survey, National Core StoreOffice (period Unassigned), Storehouse (period Unassigned) · 749 yd
Old Pentland, Burial GroundBurial Ground (medieval), Church (13th Century)(possible), Covenanters Grave(s) (17th Century), Wall(s) (medieval), Watch House (18th Century), Unidentified Pottery(s) (period Unknown) · 903 yd
Loanhead Memorial ParkMemorial · 1205 yd
Straiton Pond Local Nature ReserveWood · 1322 yd
Man, boy and horse at LoanheadMemorial · 1470 yd
Battle of RoslinMajor battlefield · 1.2 mi
Springfield MillVisitor information · 1.4 mi
Mortonhall CrematoriumWood · 1.4 mi
Protected Mountain Yew on CaerkettonMountain or hill · 1.6 mi