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Beautiful secret valley and Menacuddle well uncovered in Cornwall #223729864
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Beautiful secret valley and Menacuddle well uncovered in Cornwall. In Celtic times there was a well nearby which ran into the settlement known as Trenars-Austol. It provided the community with fresh drinking water and was supposed to have healing and magical powers.Some time after, the land at Menacuddle was acquired by Tywardreath Priory and the present Gothic well-house or baptistery was built, probably in the late 14th century.Towards the end of the 18th century Menacuddle was bought by Charles Rashleigh, who established the plantation now known as Menacuddle Woods