Wishes

[squirmelia]

Do you know the location of any wishing wells in London?

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[elethe.livejournal.com]

You can zoom in to them - http://megalithic.servehttp.com/mapserv/frames.html?layer=well&zoomsize=2&map=%2Fsrv%2Fwww%2Fhtdocs%2Fmapserv%2Fmegp.map&program=%2Fcgi-bin%2Fmapserv40&root=%2Fmapserv&map_web_imagepath=%2Fsrv%2Fwww%2Fhtdocs%2Fmapserv%2Ftmp%2F&map_web_imageurl=%2Fmapserv%2Ftmp%2F&map_web_template=itasca_adds_frames.html

I zoomed in and there are about 15 in the greater London area.

(You can look up other megalithic features on the map too)

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

Thanks! That looks like a useful list, although how many of those wells are still functional, I have yet to check, and I guess newer ones won't be mentioned.

[elethe.livejournal.com]

It seems most of them are inaccessible or dried up - Caesar's well is apparently a pit full of black gunk now.

I found one or two traditional wishing well looking things - but I clicked away from one of them and now I can't find it again (I think I might have scrolled far out of London and not noticed).
This is on the site too http://www.megalithic.co.uk/asb_mapsquare.php?op=noredir

And there is info about some of the ancient sites on that.

[elethe.livejournal.com]

It seems most of them are inaccessible or dried up - Caesar's well is apparently a pit full of black gunk now.

I found one or two traditional wishing well looking things - but I clicked away from one of them and now I can't find it again (I think I might have scrolled far out of London and not noticed).
This is on the site too http://www.megalithic.co.uk/asb_mapsquare.php?op=noredir

Aha! It seems the nearest really obvious wishing well is in Reigate - about £8 on the train if you go from London Bridge or Victoria - http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=10559
And there is info about some of the ancient sites on that.

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

Shame that most of them are inaccessible or dried up. Black gunk sounds scary!

Reigate might be an idea though.. thanks for the suggestion. Or I suppose there are always pubs called the "Wishing Well" if I get desperate. :)

[eatsoylentgreen.livejournal.com]

this is unrelated, but I read it today, so I guess that means something.

Today meaning yesterday. Yes. I am in your yesterday.

[eatsoylentgreen.livejournal.com]

oops I got so existential and roundearthed that I forgot the link

http://chiller.livejournal.com/1701139.html?thread=16051987#t16051987

another english person that I'm talking

[brit-will.livejournal.com]

there is one in the garden here (http://www.sutton.gov.uk/leisure/heritage/Cheam/whitehall.htm) i think. maybe you can ring up and ask. my grandma and grandad used to be part time stewards and show people around the house.

[bickichick.livejournal.com]

I wished for a Well- er :)

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, I saw another of those when I was up north the other week!