Cheese Well, Minch Moor
Spring (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Cheese Well, Minch Moor
Classification Spring (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 78380
Site Number NT33SE 10
NGR NT 3569 3357
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/78380
- Council Scottish Borders, The
- Parish Traquair
- Former Region Borders
- Former District Tweeddale
- Former County Peebles-shire
NT33SE 10 3569 3357
The Cheese Well. A natural open spring on the S side of the Minchmoor road. Tradition asserts that travellers left pieces of food by the well as superstitious offerings to the 'little people' to ensure a trouble-free passage across the moor.
Two inscribed stones were placed adjacent to the well by the resident of Camp Shiel in 1965. One bears the inscription 'Cheese Well' and the other 'Cheese Well', '1965' and a thistle motif.
Information from K McLaren, 7 April 1994.
Sbc Note
Visibility: This is an upstanding earthwork or monument.
Information from Scottish Borders Council
