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    St Winefride's Well (Welsh: Ffynnon Wenffrewi) is a holy well and national shrine located in the Welsh town of Holywell in Flintshire. The patron saint...
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    Saint Winifred (redirect from St Winefride)
    is managed by Cadw. St Winefride's Holy Well at Holywell Farm in Cheshire is one of a number of holy wells dedicated to St Winefride which were placed to...
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  • Snowdon Pistyll Rhaeadr Wrexham Overton St Winefride's Well Llangollen Gresford The Seven Wonders of Wales (Welsh: Saith Rhyfeddod Cymru) is a traditional...
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  • St Winefride Church may refer to: St Winefride's Church, Holywell, Flintshire St Winefride's Church, Sandbach, Cheshire St Winefride Church, South Wimbledon...
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    Holywell, Flintshire (category Water wells in Wales)
    tre "town" + ffynnon "well", meaning "town of [the] well". The market town of Holywell is known for St Winefride's Well, a holy well surrounded by a chapel...
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    St Winefride's Church (also known as St Winifred's Church or St Winefred's Church) is a Roman Catholic Parish church in Holywell, Flintshire. It was founded...
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    autumn of 1605, he made a Christian pilgrimage to the shrine of St Winefride's Well in Holywell, Wales. About this time, he met Robert Catesby, who was...
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    Carfin Welsh National Shrine of Our Lady of the Taper, Cardigan St Winefride's Well, Holywell National Shrine of Our Lady of Europe There are 101 national...
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    castles in Flint, Hawarden, Rhuddlan and Ewloe, Greenfield Valley, St. Winefride's Well in Holywell and Wepre Country Park, in Connah's Quay. The county...
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  • 53°08′42″N 2°22′08″W / 53.145°N 2.369°W / 53.145; -2.369 St Winefride's is a Catholic church in Sandbach, Cheshire, England within the Roman Catholic...
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  • Gaelic Monasticism. Associated with Saint Columba Holywell, Wales. St Winefride's Well is claimed to be the oldest continuously operating pilgrimage site...
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    Llywelyn the Great, Prince of Gwynedd. His son Dafydd ap Llywelyn gave St Winefride's Well to the abbey. The monks harnessed the power of the Holywell stream...
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    significantly English Maelor was incorporated into Wrexham County Borough, and St Asaph, Prestatyn and Rhyl into Denbighshire. The current administrative area...
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    2024-09-28. "St Winefride's Well, Woolston - British Pilgrimage Trust". www.britishpilgrimage.org. Retrieved 2024-09-28. "St Winifred's Well History Album"...
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    Norfolk (c. 1485–1533) St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle (1475–1528) St Winefride's Well Holywell, Flintshire, Wales (1490) The central tower and strainer...
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    wife Dorothy. A few days later the group set out on a pilgrimage to St Winefride's Well at Holywell in Wales. They travelled to John Grant's home at Norbrook...
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    steeple, Snowdon's mountain without its people, Overton yew trees, St Winefride wells, Llangollen bridge, and Gresford bells. At 1,500 to 2,000 years old...
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  • would affect their water supply, and particularly that of the famous St Winefride's Well. Supporters of the Milwr and District Mines Drainage Bill pointed...
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    Estuary). The well has been listed as one of the holy wells of Wales on a par with the more famous St Winefride's Well in Holywell. The well in Hendre is...
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    Ambrose Rookwood (category People from the Borough of St Edmundsbury)
    Jesuits Henry Garnet and John Gerard on a pilgrimage to the shrine of St Winefride's Well in Holywell. Late in September, he was approached by Robert Catesby...
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    steeple, Snowdon's mountain without its people, Overton yew trees, St Winefride wells, Llangollen bridge and Gresford bells. The church was designated as...
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    decapitation and restoration is now a shrine and pilgrimage site called St Winefride's Well in Holywell, and known as the Lourdes of Wales. Saint Beuno (sometimes...
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    St Mary (under the title Our Lady, Star of the Sea) and to St Winefride, a 7th-century Welsh noblewoman who is also venerated at St Winefride's Well,...
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  • the artist Annie Swynnerton (née Robinson). Swynnerton's St Winefride at St Winefride's Well in Flintshire Swynnerton's Queen Victoria statue, Southend...
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    steeple, Snowdon's mountain without its people, Overton yew trees, St Winefride wells, Llangollen bridge and Gresford bells. The church's tower is mistakenly...
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  • from 1890 to 1898. Holywell was named from St Winefride's Well, a holy well surrounded by a chapel. The well has been known since at least the Roman period...
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    Shrewsbury, to seek the relics of St Winifred, a decision which was to have momentous consequences for the economic as well as the spiritual development of...
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    Bishops' Conference of England and Wales, Plenary Resolutions: Environment, St Winefride, Eucharistic Congress and Conflict in Gaza, published 17 November 2023...
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  • later he died in Shrewsbury under unknown circumstances and was buried at Old St Chad's on 25 August 1769. Gründliche historische Nachricht vom Theer-Wasser...
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    to the constant water flow from the stream which comes from the St Winefride's Well. The speed this site developed was one of the reasons that Greenfield...
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