Saints in Scottish Place-Names
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St Mungo's Well, Selkirk
Grid reference
NT 473 279 (accurate position)
Six-figure easting & northing
347300 627900
Latitude
55.54195634954285
Longitude
-2.835228354646114
County
Selkirkshire
Nearby places
Ladylands, settlement, Selkirk (0.12 miles)
Selkirk Regis, former parish, Selkirk (0.2 miles)
Selkirk (Abbatis), parish (0.31 miles)
St Helen's Loch, Selkirk (0.81 miles)
Ladywood Edge, Selkirk (1.59 miles)
Object Classification
Antiquity
Water
Is linear feature?
No
Notes
NMRS records the well as built into a hill-slop with a modern stone frontage. See NMRS for further description and account of its history, in particular the fact that it played a part in the Common Riding, and that its water was led to the Town Cross in 1706.
Names
1 head-name linked to this place ?St Mungo's Well
Head name
St Mungo's Well
Place
St Mungo's Well, Selkirk
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
Mungo's Well 1892, OS 6 inch second edn.
Historic formMungo's Well Head nameSt Mungo's Well PlaceSt Mungo's Well, Selkirk Certainty that this name applies to this placeCertain SourceOS 6 inch second edn. Date of citation1892 x 1905 |
Source code
OS 6 inch second edn.
Source title
OS 6 inch second edition
Saints in this place-name
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