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Abominable Showman
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One of my favourite small 'local' marvels is the ebbing and flowing well at Cilcain in my native northeast Wales. It was first mentioned in 1188:
Even better it's still there, and still (despite a general fall in the water table due to mine drainage) just about ebbs and flows.
There is a very detailed survey of historical sources here. And the Blue Bell pub in Halkyn is very good if you're passing.
Thanks to limestone geology the whole area is full of hydrological wonders including the "bottomless" Powell's Lode Cavern and St Winifride's Well, most of which connects together in some (largely unknown) way.
There is a spring not far from Rhuddlan, in the province of Tegeingl, which not only regularly ebbs and flows like the sea, twice in twenty-four hours, but at other times frequently rises and falls both by night and day
Even better it's still there, and still (despite a general fall in the water table due to mine drainage) just about ebbs and flows.
There is a very detailed survey of historical sources here. And the Blue Bell pub in Halkyn is very good if you're passing.
Thanks to limestone geology the whole area is full of hydrological wonders including the "bottomless" Powell's Lode Cavern and St Winifride's Well, most of which connects together in some (largely unknown) way.