Category: Sacred Wells

• The Virtuous Well – At Water’s Edge

  

  The path narrowed quickly as I leave the road at Trellech, slipping between hedgerows stitched with fern and moss below the bare winter trees and hedges. The village fell quiet behind me, the quiet only disturbed by a car passing me out of the village and the sounds of roofers replacing a roof on a…

  Paul Challinor

  March 11, 2026

  Sacred Wells, Wales, Wells and Springs, Welsh Legends

  Celtic traditions, Healing springs, Hidden Wales, History, Holy wells, Monmouthshire history, Sacred landscapes, Sacred wells Wales, saints, Trellech, Virtuous Well, Wales, Welsh folklore

• St Trillo’s Well

  

  Not only does Wales boast the smallest city on the UK, St David’s; or the smallest cathedral, St Asaph’s, but we also have arguably the smallest chapel – St Trillo. And when we say small, think tiny. Sitting almost in the sea protected only by the concrete sea defences to the north and tucked into…

  Paul Challinor

  January 10, 2024

  Ancient Churches, Sacred Wells, Wales, Wales Coastal Path, Wells and Springs

  Llandrillo-yn-Rhos, Rhos-on-Sea, St Cadvan, St Tanwg, St Tecwyn, St Trillo

• Ffynnon Issui

  

  Tucked down off the road near a sharp bend, and just above the Nant Mair Ffynnon Issui is one of the better preserved wells I come across in a while. Steps lead down from the road to a small dry stone alter enclosing a square basin which collects water running down from a stream in…

  Paul Challinor

  January 25, 2022

  Sacred Wells, Wales

  Ffynnon Issui