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A spectacular location overlooking the Atlantic for this ancient well which has a tradition of being a healing well for scurvy and also eye troubles. Although much visited at one time and with its own rhyme "If you would rise before the sun, And out to Bradstone;s Well would run......" and named because of the large stones around it, the spring has now almost disappeared but its presence is indicated by the water seeping down the cliff bank onto Well Beach and by the profusion of water loving plants in an otherwise dry hillside. The spring is in a small stone lined basin and overlooks the hump of St Catherine's Point which some stories say once had a hermit's chapel near the summit - most likely is that this was the site of a chapel associated with the nearby St Nectan's Celtic Monastery at Stoke, Hartland
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