The Living Wells of Wales

Author and photographer Phil Cope takes us on a journey through the sacred wells of Wales, from the Anglesey to the Gwent. On his way he discovers wells in city centers and, quite literally, in the middle of nowhere-on mountainsides, in deserted valleys, on the coast, in sea caves. They include healing wells, cursing wells, and wells named for saints, Satan, witches, angels, fairies, friars, nuns, hermits, murderers, and hangmen. Cope's atmospheric photographs are accompanied by folk tales, myths and legends, conversations with well-keepers and poems inspired by Welsh wells. > This is a new title in the Holy Wells series, and is preceded by volumes on Scotland, Cornwall and the Borderlands.