Well Dressing, Cheddleton
Well dressing at Cheddleton. The design is of New Testament scenes with the inscription 'Let the children come to me'. The well is located in Station Road near the junction with Leek Road. Here, it is ...
Well Dressing, Cheddleton
Well dressing at Cheddleton, 1985. The design is of new Testament scenes with inscription 'Let the children come to me'. The well is located in Station Road near the junction with Leek Road. Here, it ...
Well Dressing, Endon
The custom of well dressing can be traced back hundreds of years. Originally the wells were decorated by throwing wreaths and flowers into the water. However in about 1818 a clay-covered board was used, ...
Well Dressing, Endon
Endon has the the longest tradition of well dressing in Staffordshire, beginning when the stone well head was built in 1845 at the expense of Thomas Heaton, a local landowner. The well dressing formerly ...
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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