Thanks to James and Ross for the info, and also to Feorag who has offered to
show me around one day. All I have to do now is find the time...
Which I will do :-)
Katy
James Rattue wrote:
> 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.
> --
> James Rattue
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Katy Jordan
Faculty Librarian, Engineering & Design
Library & Learning Centre
University of Bath
BATH BA2 7AY
Tel: 01225-826826 Ext. 5612
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