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Hidden East Anglia:

Landscape Legends of Eastern England

 

Wells, meres, ponds, streams & bridges:

 

              NORFOLK

             SUFFOLK
Bawburgh ~ Walstan's Well   Acton ~ Wimbell Pond
Burnham Norton ~ The wishing wells   Barnby ~ The hidden ford
Coltishall ~ Golden Gates Pond   Beccles ~ St. Mary's Hill spring
Costessey ~ St. Walstan's Well   Blythburgh ~ The Lady's Well
Croxton ~ Fowlmere   Bury St. Edmunds ~ The Mermaid's Pits
Diss ~ Diss Mere  

 Exning ~

St. Wendreda's Well

East Dereham ~ St. Withburga's Well   Fornham All Saints ~ Mermaid in the well
East Rudham ~ Mary Bone's Well   Great Barton ~ Barton Mere
East Wretham ~ Devil's mere   Haughley ~ The deep, deep moat
Gorleston ~ The Lily Pit   Hawstead ~ Jacob's Well
Great Melton ~ The Blow Hill pit   Henham ~ Fool's Watering
Happisburgh ~ The Pump Hill spectre   Homersfield ~ The howling demon
Hoe ~ Lily Pond well   Hoxne ~ Goldbrook Bridge
Holt ~ The Spout Common spring  

    

Edmund's healing spring

Hunstanton ~ St. Edmund's wells Ickworth ~ The Golden Pond
Little Walsingham ~ The holy wishing wells   Kedington ~ Holy well
Lyng ~

The chalice in the river

Balor's Pit

  Middleton ~ Mother Lumpkin's Hole
Newton ~ Boudicca's well
Marham ~ Maid's Hole   Polstead ~ The pond at Hellin's Bottom
Moulton St. Mary ~ Callow Pit   Rendlesham ~ A haunted pond
Neatishead ~ Heard's Hole  

The mermaid's pond

Norwich ~ The dragon's mouth Stoke Ash ~ Gold in the moat
Santon ~ St. Helen's Well   Sudbury ~ Holy Water
Shelfanger ~ The candlestick in the pond   Winston ~ The hauntedpool
Shipdham ~ A haunted pond   Wissett ~ Cole's Arch
Shouldham ~ The Silver Well  

The grey lady's pond

The Hallelujah Pond

Swaffham ~ Bride's Pit
Tattersett ~ Wicken Pond Woolpit ~ The Lady's Well
Taverham ~ Walstan's spring
Thetford ~

Devil's Hole

Frenchman's Hole

ESSEX

Tunstall ~ Hell Hole   Ashdon ~ The Lady Well
Walpole St. Andrew ~ King John's Hole   Barling ~ Weir Pond
Watlington ~ Thieves' Bridge   Clacton ~ Ghost from the water
Coggeshall ~ The Marks Hall lakes

  CAMBRIDGESHIRE

  Colchester ~ Charlotte's Well
Burwell ~ The fertility well   Danbury ~ Moores Bridge
Castle Camps ~ Wigmore Pond   Dedham ~ The giant's footprint
Cherry Hinton ~ The Giant's Grave   Epping Forest ~ The suicide pool
Fowlmere ~ The flowing brook   Finchingfield ~ The wishing well
Little Downham ~ Witch's Hole   Foulness ~ A haunted pond
Littleport ~ Bulldog Bridge   Fryerning ~ Another haunted pond
Steeple Morden ~ The spire & the well   Great Baddow ~ Deadman's Lane & Well
      Hadstock ~ St. Botolph's Well
Horndon on the Hill ~ The donkey pond
      Kelvedon Hatch ~ The ghost at the pond
      Langenhoe ~ The Devil's Drink Bowl
      Little Baddow ~

Alice at Grace's Bridge

Colam Lane pond

     
      Maldon ~ Cromwell's Well
      Mount Bures ~ Craig's Bridge
      Pleshey ~ The treasure in the moat
      Stanford-le-Hope ~ The pony in the pond
      St. Osyth ~ St. Osyth's Well
      Wormingford ~ Ghost of the mere

 

                                                                             Extra: Other notable wells & springs

 

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