I don't get to see many holy wells that are new to me these days. It would have been a great shame to go to Cornwall and not get one in, however, and just round the corner from where we were staying at Whiteford Temple was Linkinhorne with its well of St Mylor. It's one of Cornwall's and therefore Britain's nicest, a beautiful and genuinely old-looking well-house at the bottom of a field south of the village. Despite having directions from a variety of books and the well being marked very clearly on the map, we still went into the wrong field looking for it and I had to hop over a fence and plunge into a patch of gorse and trees to find it.
it is beautiful! What a treat to find it.
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