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Old 07-10-2004, 18:18   #11
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Re: Church's ancient wells

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Originally Posted by Doug
You come up there with a couple of crates of ale and I'm sure we could convince Mr T to join us with a spade or two. I have to say that I would have thought that it would lie outside the Church yard some where between the Thorn and ChurchKirkBridge.

The trouble with divining an area like a Church yard is that the ground becomes a little moist over the centuries of sticking dead people in it. The same reasoning outlines the fact that you wouldn’t want to draw water for a well that your old aunty as been seeping in to…..
tealeaf put a web site on somewere of rishton and i am almost sure they said about the situation of the well
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