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The Springs of Wells

Bishop's Palace, Wells, Somerset

The springs that gave England's smallest city its name.

Wells takes its name from the springs that rise in the garden of the Bishop's Palace, including St Andrew's Well. People gathered here long before the Saxons built a church beside them, which grew into the great cathedral.

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When
Ancient
Where
51.2090, -2.6430
Group
Holy wells & springs

Visiting

The Bishop's Palace gardens are open daily. The springs are beside the moat.

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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