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2 unusual facts about Holywell


Holywell, County Fermanagh

The Legion of Mary see to the upkeep of the Holywell, a place of pilgrimage for many local people who perform penitential stations during the old period of Lughnasa from the last weekend in July until August 15.

Templerushin Church at Holywell has a little window in the wall of the church known as the leper window, where those with this illness could look in to observe Mass but could not attend.


1926 in Wales

England footballer Dixie Dean fractures his skull in a motorcycle accident near Holywell.

Brierdene

The burn rises near the village of West Holywell, thence to the north of Earsdon, through Brierdene Farm and across Whitley Bay Golf Club, through a small valley, under the main road to Blyth A193 road, across the beach and into the sea.

Edward John Payne

In 1899 Payne married Emma Leonora Helena Pertz, the elder daughter of Major Pertz of Holt, Norfolk, and of Koblenz, Prussia, and they set up home at Holywell Lodge, Wendover, Buckinghamshire.

Francis Charles Hingeston-Randolph

Ordained in 1856, he served as curate of Holywell, Oxfordshire, until 1858, when he moved to Hampton Gay, in the same county, succeeding to the incumbency of the parish next year.

Holywell Priory

Haliwell or Holywell Priory (various spellings) was a religious house in Shoreditch, formerly in Middlesex, and now in the London Borough of Hackney.

Holywell Town F.C.

During those early days, Holywell played their football on a ground known as Ffordd Fer ('Short Way'), which was located where the local high school is now situated, and also wore red and white as their strip, just as the current team wears today in its home kit.

The Merseysiders included at least five players with English First Division experience within the team, and ran out 4–1 winners in front of a large Holywell crowd.

Lincolnshire Gate

Lincolnshire Gate is the name given to a corner in the road between Holywell and Pickworth to the south-west of Castle Bytham, in Lincolnshire, England.

Saint Winifred

Another spring supposedly arising from the laying down of Winifred's body is at Holywell Farm, midway between Tattenhall and Clutton, Cheshire.

St Richard Gwyn Catholic High School, Flint

It draws its pupils and students from the Roman Catholic parishes of Flint, Holywell, Queensferry, Mold, Saltney, Buckley, Connah's Quay, Hawarden and Pantasaph.

Townlynx

From September, a new service, 28X will operate between Mold, Flint and Holywell


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