Abbot’s Well

Abbot’s Well ABE W NO240179 1 362 60m NOF

    Abbot’s Well 1855 OS 6 inch 1st edn

Sc or SSE abbot + Sc wall or SSE well

OS Name Book reported that it has ‘excellent water’ and that ‘it was reported in the neighbourhood to have been anciently used to supply the monks of Lindores Abbey’ (38, 46). In the 1840s we are told of ‘many miraculous cures which at no very remote period were ascribed to these waters’ (NSA ix, 68).

This place-name appeared in printed volume 4