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This well is located on a remote farm close to the Cornish border; the site has Anglo-Saxon origins and an interesting history. In 1066 it was held by one of the higher English thanes and after the Norman Conquest was held directly from the King by William Capra as part of the King's three holdings in this area. It then passed to the Earl of Cornwall and from 1166 to the 14th century was owned by the Tyrel family when it passed to the Cruwys family who owned it for four hundred years. At the time of the Tyrels, a chapel was licensed for worship at Alfardisworthy and the remains of the stone and cob building stand close by the well. A number of springs rise here and the stone well house is set into the hedge bank of an old orchard.
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