Publication Account

Date 1981

Event ID 1018421

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Publication Account

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An early well existed on the east side of the church in Heriot Street at a point identified -by Ordnance Survey investigators as NT 1308 8299 (Ordnance Survey Record Cards, reference NT 18 SW 6). This well was referred to in a charter of 1219, but it is not identified until a Sasine of 1588 where it is called Eriot's Well, a form which later became St. Heriot's Well (Stephen, 1921, 229). The well is still intact, although covered up with a large flagstone. Another early well, St. John's Well (NT 1305 8314) is located on the west side of Chapel Place (Ordnance Survey Record Cards, NT 18 SW 7).

Information from ‘Historic Inverkeithing: The Archaeological Implications of Development’ (1981).