juamei wrote:
I guess the question is do you want to know when the well in use now was built or when the water source was first used?
Katy Jordon has an excellent website which has been around for some time and has probably been mentioned here before - Healing Wells of Wiltshire,she writes about the strange case of Purton Stoke spa. Yes, I think you have summed up what I was asking, and yes it does sound ambigious. The (pre)history of wells and springs seems to lie hidden in 'myth and folklore' - which is why it is such an important strand of this web-site I guess.