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St Winefride's Well

Holywell, Flintshire

The 'Lourdes of Wales', a place of pilgrimage for over 1,300 years.

Legend says that in the 600s a prince named Caradog cut off the head of a young woman, Winefride, when she refused him. Where her head fell, a spring burst from the ground.

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When
From the 600s
Where
53.2770, -3.2230
Group
Holy wells & springs

Visiting

Open daily. Visitors can still bathe in the outer pool at set times.

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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