Saints in Scottish Place-Names
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St Mary's Well, Melrose
Grid reference
NT 546 333 (accurate position)
Six-figure easting & northing
354600 633300
Latitude
55.59121288061739
Longitude
-2.7204311770419816
Altitude (metres)
165
County
Roxburghshire
Nearby places
St William's Well, Melrose (0.39 miles)
St Dunstan's Well, Melrose (0.42 miles)
St Dunstan's, settlement Melrose (0.44 miles)
St Mary's Abbey, Melrose (0.51 miles)
St Cuthberts, settlement Melrose (0.56 miles)
Object Classification
Water
Is linear feature?
No
Relationships with other parishes
Within Melrose, parish
Names
1 head-name linked to this place ?St Mary's Well
Head name
St Mary's Well
Place
St Mary's Well, Melrose
Certainty that this name applies to this place
Certain
The status of this name is
Current
Is this a current OS form? ?
Yes
Is this the original referent of the place?
Yes
Is the association of this name to this object hypothetical?
No
Saints in this place-name
Mary, Mary the Blessed Virgin, Our Lady (ns) (certain)
Mary the Blessed Virgin (certain)
Place-name data
The place-name data featured in this resource is copyright of the University of Glasgow.
Map Layers
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Default map:
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Satellite map:
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Satellite map with labels:
Base map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, CC-BY-SA, Imagery © Mapbox
Modern OS map:
Ordnance Survey OpenData. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right (2010)
OS 1840-1880 map:
National Library of Scotland Historic Maps
OS 1920-1933 map:
National Library of Scotland Historic Maps
