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Ffynnon Ddyfnog

Llanrhaeadr, Denbighshire

A healing bath whose pilgrims paid for a famous stained-glass window.

Ffynnon Ddyfnog is a holy well in the woods behind the church at Llanrhaeadr, with a stone bathing pool. It was famous for curing skin diseases, and so many pilgrims came that their offerings are said to have paid for the church's magnificent Jesse window, made in 1533.

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When
Medieval
Where
53.1500, -3.3800
Group
Holy wells & springs

Visiting

Behind St Dyfnog's Church, near Denbigh.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
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The Ledger of Lost Britain

The Romans arrived in AD 43. For most people that is where the history of Britain begins. But by the time the legions landed, people had already been living on these islands for thousands of years. They had hunted, farmed, mined flint, dragged stones across the country, raised a hill by hand, and buried their dead in great tombs. They left no written words. What they left was the ground itself. Every place in this book can be visited, or has been dug up, or is in a museum.

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