We recently made a video of our local sacred well, Coventy Well, on the Torrington Commons.
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Sunday, 29 August 2010
Tuesday, 10 August 2010
Coventy Well
This is a small sacred well on the outskirts of the town Great Torrington, in North Devon. It is located on the commons, just past the old bowling green. In the 14C lepers from the nearby village of tadiport (famous for its leper fields and Leperfest every year) would go to the well and use the healing waters to help cure their condition.
This well was probably one of many dedicated to the Romano-british goddess of wells and springs, Coventina. Coventina was once much revered and there is still a shrine to her in Northumberland, near Hadrians Wall. It is thought that the river Tyne and the City Coventry both got their names from Coventina.
Coventy well is contained in the copse of trees in the centre of the map.
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| Coventy Well, Torrington Commons, North Devon |
This well was probably one of many dedicated to the Romano-british goddess of wells and springs, Coventina. Coventina was once much revered and there is still a shrine to her in Northumberland, near Hadrians Wall. It is thought that the river Tyne and the City Coventry both got their names from Coventina.
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| Coventina, Goddess of wells and springs. |
Coventy well is contained in the copse of trees in the centre of the map.
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