I was up in Edinburgh lately visiting my putative Godchild *in utero*
and went scouting for wells - yes, there are St Anthony's & St
Margaret's in Holyrood Park and St George's by Stockbridge Mill which is
basically a brick hole in the steep banks beneath the mill above the
Water of Leith which you can *just* see leaning precipitously over the
wall at the bottom of the mill garden, but the best is St Bernard's Well
which is easy to find along the main footpath on the south bank of the
Water of Leith just west of Stockbridge. This is a rather run-down, and
locked, but still impressive Classical drum-shaped thing about thirty
feet high with an allegorical statue of Plenty, or something, beneath
the central canopy and a seat at hand with a crawly dedicatory
inscription to the Victoria burgher who built it. Very nice.
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James Rattue
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