Stories of Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire

Tag: Springs

High Wycombe’s holy wells

Local interest was stimulated by a mention in the Wycombe & South Bucks Star newspaper by Alan Cleaver

Bowden Lane Springs

Two springs are clearly visible in the pond, now divided by a railway bridge, at the bottom of Bowden Lane.

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

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