Well dressing, Ilam
An early colour photograph of the well dressing at Ilam, decorated with flowers and the inscription " Lift up your heads, o ye gates".
Well dressing is believed to have ancient origins, a ritual to ...
Well Dressing, Rushton
Saint Helen's Well, near the vicarage house at Rushton Marsh, was dressed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The tradition was resumed in the 1990s.
The ceremony of well dressing is peculiar ...
Wishing Stone, Pye Green
The stone, locally known as 'The Wishing Stone' still exists. It is sited on an old packhorse route known as Blake Street and near to St. Chad's Ditch, an earthwork which may be of mediaeval origin.
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