There is a poem about the well, said to testify to its purity;
“Whoever eats Hammer nuts and drinks Diana’s water (watter)
Will never leave Witton while he’s a rag or tatter.”
There is a poem about the well, said to testify to its purity;
“Whoever eats Hammer nuts and drinks Diana’s water (watter)
Will never leave Witton while he’s a rag or tatter.”
“There is another spring on the fell, called Diana’s Well, which Mr Barker thinks may be regarded as a memorial of Roman Paganism” Wellans History and Topography of York and North Yorkshire 1851.