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A site on Dartmoor. It is easily found by following the substantial granite stone wall from opposite the kissing gate on the minor road at the entrance to Buckland Hall, up the hill onto the moor; this wall marks the boundary between the parishes of Ashburton and Buckland-in-the-Moor.The site of Stidwell is at a point where three walls converge to form a small enclosure. Here is the source of a spring and there is a jumble of stones which may have once have marked the well. Although the well itself is unremarkable, the way in which the stone boundary walls curve to create the enclosure around the site, is indicative of a deliberate and ancient action to respect the spot. This is recorded as Blindwell circa 1200 and a boundary description of 1771 describes how the well site was to be provided with a stone trough so fixed that one half was in Buckland and the other in Ashburton but there is no evidence of this now to be seen. Site is marked on OS Map and included in Devon Sites and Monuments Register as a Sacred Well.
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