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Not sure about a Pilgrimage Path - medieval pilgrims may have started in the parish church. A little below the south door of the parish church is the entrance to the upper chapel, from which steps go down to the actual well chapel. Try to find out when the remaining relic of St Winefride is shown - it's usually once a day. You can carry on down the Greenfield Valley (mostly on footpaths) past a number of industrial sites, eventually reaching the ruins of Basingwerk Abbey. In the other direction, if you like walking, the North Wales Pilgrims' Way http://pilgrims-way-north-wales.org/ is not an old pilgrim path but a modern long-distance footpath. A couple of days' exploration would take you to the C19 monastery at Pantasaph, the magnificent early medieval carved stone at Maen Achwyfan, the Neolithic caves and burial mound on Gop Hill and some interesting churches (Llanasa, Trelawnyd and at a push Tremeirchion). An article by the late Rick Turner in the current Archaeologia Cambrensis has masses of detail on the building and the archaeology of the site at Holywell. He challenges the idea that Lady Margaret Beaufort sponsored it. There's a lot of evidence for the initiatives of the Pennant abbots of Basingwerk, but there's still a possibility that LMB had some involvement - the architecture has close parallels with the Lady Chapel that she and her son Henry VII had built at Westminster Abbey. Maddy --- Prof. Madeleine Gray University of South Wales http://www.heritagetortoise.co.uk http://twitter.com/heritagepilgrim 'Lle taw Duw nid doeth yngan' (St Fagan, allegedly) On 03/09/2019 10:07, Tinsel Linton wrote: > Hello All, > I am visiting St Winefrieds in Holywell in a couple of weeks time. Does anyone know where the pilgrimage path is and where it goes. > Also is there any other places of interest nearby? I dont have a car. > I always forget to send a little update when I visit a well but I will try to do better. I was at the Hussey well in Hayes recently, cleared the leaves as usual and just admire its survival on a suburban London street > Please message back with anything that might make my birthday adventure even more magical > Much Love Tinsel xx > > ------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the WELLS-AND-SPAS list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=WELLS-AND-SPAS&A=1 ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the WELLS-AND-SPAS list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=WELLS-AND-SPAS&A=1