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St Mungo's Well, Whittingehame
Grid reference
NT 641 635 (accurate position)
Six-figure easting & northing
364100 663500
Latitude
55.863374047733835
Longitude
-2.573654619945765
Altitude (metres)
275
County
East Lothian
Nearby places
Johnscleuch, settlement, Whittingehame (1.9 miles)
Kilpallet, settlement Whittingehame (2.01 miles)
Cranshaws, parish (2.86 miles)
Lady's Well, Longformacus (4.74 miles)
Philipsburn House, Abbey St Bathans (5.02 miles)
Object Classification
Water
Is linear feature?
No
Notes
A small spring issuing from the hillside, its water flows 170m eastwards before entering the burn called Chapel Cleugh (OS Digimap and OS 6 inch 1st edn). The well sits 320 metres north of Penshiel Grange, a farm which was a grange of Melrose Abbey. The farm of Priestlaw lies 760 metres east of the well. There must have been a chapel associated with Penshiel Grange, and NMRS records a possible site just to the north of the present farm (Canmore ID 57534). But OS 6 inch 1st edn shows the site of a Chapel closer to Chapel Cleugh at NT640632. See NMRS discussion for various possibilities as to the signficance of the two sites.
Names
1 head-name linked to this place ?St Mungo's Well
Head name
St Mungo's Well
Place
St Mungo's Well, Whittingehame
Certainty that this name applies to this place
Certain
The status of this name is
Current
Is this a current OS form? ?
Yes
Is this the original referent of the place?
Yes
Is the association of this name to this object hypothetical?
No
St Mungo's Well 1843, OS 6 inch first edn.
Historic formSt Mungo's Well Head nameSt Mungo's Well PlaceSt Mungo's Well, Whittingehame Certainty that this name applies to this placeCertain SourceOS 6 inch first edn. Date of citation1843 x 1882 Notes on the context of this place-nameMid to late 19th c. |
Source code
OS 6 inch first edn.
Source title
Ordnance Survey 6 Inch to the Mile, First Edition
Notes
Mid to late 19th c.
Saints in this place-name
Kentigern, Mungo, Mo Choe (ns) (certain)
Kentigern of Glasgow (certain)
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