St Caradog's Well
Merlin's Bridge, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire
OS Grid Ref.: SM94241427
Lat/Lng: 51.7891456573,-4.98484411433
A well near Haverfordwest that was recorded as fons Sancti Caradoc in 1315, and marked on modern OS maps. A fair was held here into the nineteenth century, and the site was perhaps formerly associated with a hermitage. The site is little more than a mile west from Haroldstone St Issels, which is the church where, according to the Life, the saint died.
More information
National Monuments RecordS. Baring-Gould & John Fisher, The Lives of the British Saints (London: Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1908), 78 View online
Francis Jones, The Holy Wells of Wales (Cardiff: 1954), 204
B.G. Charles, The Place-names of Pembrokeshire (Aberystwyth: National Library of Wales, 1992), 639
A.W. Wade-Evans, 'Parochiale Wallicanum' in Y Cymmrodor (1910), 33 n. 2
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