Stories of Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire

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Old Woman’s Spring, Brill

History and Antiquities of the town, hundred and deanery of Buckingham, pub 1755

Hartwell Well

Hartwell Spring

Local tradition (recorded by RC Hope in his The Legendary Lore of the Holy Wells of England in 1893) says the name arose when Julius Caesar

The Lion’s Well, Long Crendon

The Ordnance Survey map of 1901 marks the spring as Lion Spring. Today the stone work still stands, but in a state of disrepair.

Strange Well, Cuddington

Strange Folklore Society rediscovered Cuddington’s spring in 1985. They were researching all of Bucks holy wells following an article in Source

Court Well, Thame

THE historian Lupton writes in A History of Thame: “Spring Close on the bank of the High Ground above is a fine pure spring of high repute for its many virtues.

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