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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 717348
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/717348
NT57NE 32 5931 7780.
(NT 5931 7780) St Baldred's Well (NR)
OS 25" map (1965)
St Baldred's Well: Some 50 yds E of the church (NT57NE 2), under an overhanging bank 20ft back from the river is a muddy spring known locally as St Baldred's Well, but the name is also applied to another well, still used, by the cottages and lying beside the footpath leading to the haugh.
RCAHMS 1924, visited 1913
The Ordnance Survey Name Book [ONB] only notes one "St Baldred's Well", describing it as a "neatly constructed spring well, built round the margin with stones and partially covered with a large flag of red sandstone. (However, "St Baldred's Whirl", a pool in the River Tyne, is also described - possibly this name became transferred to the well near the river noted by the RCAHMS).
Name Book 1853
St Baldred's Well, at NT 5931 7780, was pointed out by Mr J G Levack (Prestonkirk parish church) as being the only St Baldred's Well he was aware of. The well consists of a small, stone-lined cavity with a good flow of water. It is extremely difficult to find, being hidden by vegetation.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 25 October 1962
