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Nine Maidens' Well, Pitempton
Well (Medieval)
Site Name Nine Maidens' Well, Pitempton
Classification Well (Medieval)
Canmore ID 31911
Site Number NO33SE 1
NGR NO 3829 3452
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/31911
- Council Angus
- Parish Mains And Strathmartine (Angus)
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District City Of Dundee
- Former County Angus
NO33SE 1 3829 3452.
(NO 3829 3451) Nine Maidens' Well (NR) (site of)
OS 6" map, Forfarshire, 2nd ed., (1926)
The Nine Maidens' Well, to which is attached a local legend, is in a hollow on the N side of the railway, about 50 yards W of the road leading down to West Mill of Baldoran. It was about 4' square, bound with round rough stones, and covered with a flagstone. The farmer had
it closed up as the numbers of people visiting it were damaging his crop. Ordnance Survey Name Book(ONB 1859).
The Nine Maidens had a chapel in Strathdighty which probably stood at Pitempton, not far from the spring (NO33SE 3).
Name Book 1859; A J warden 1880-5; J M Mackinlay 1906.
A spring still emits in the field at this spot, but there is no masonry around it, forming a well.
Visited by OS (J L D) 29 April 1958.
