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Old 07-10-2004, 18:07   #10
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Re: Church's ancient wells

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Originally Posted by staggeringman
the parishioners of the church have tried to find the well but to no avail, they even got someone in with the divineing rods.you have to understand that us accywebbers cant all go up there with our spades and start digging even though we might find something.
You come up there with a couple of crates of ale and I'm sure we could convince Mr T to join us with a spade or two. I have to say that I would have thought that it would lie outside the Church yard some where between the Thorn and ChurchKirkBridge.

The trouble with divining an area like a Church yard is that the ground becomes a little moist over the centuries of sticking dead people in it. The same reasoning outlines the fact that you wouldn’t want to draw water for a well that your old aunty as been seeping in to…..
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