St. Plegmund's well

St. Plegmund's well is about 220 yards (201 m) west of St Peter's Church, Plemstall, near the village of Mickle Trafford, Cheshire, England (grid reference SJ454701).

It is named after Plegmund, who later became Archbishop of Canterbury and is believed to have lived as a hermit nearby.

[2] The well is on the edge of a low rise, to the east of which is one of the channels of the River Gowy.

An inscribed sandstone kerb was added in 1907 and dedicated by the Venerable E. Barber, Archdeacon of Chester, on 11 November of that year.

In the 1990s, it was noticed that the hawthorn tree overhanging the well was dressed periodically, and during the later 1990s archaeologists from Chester City Council led local children on a well-dressing walk on St Plegmund's feast day (2 August).