{"id":288,"date":"2022-06-04T21:54:37","date_gmt":"2022-06-04T21:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triskelepublishing.com\/weirdstonewalk\/?page_id=288"},"modified":"2024-11-04T11:38:14","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T11:38:14","slug":"wizards-well","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/triskelepublishing.com\/weirdstonewalk\/wizards-well\/","title":{"rendered":"Wizard&#8217;s Well"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Approximate Location<\/strong><br>OS Grid Reference: SJ 855 780<br>Latitude: 53.29.91N Longitude: 2.21.90W<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">After spotting the <a href=\"https:\/\/triskelepublishing.com\/weirdstonewalk\/the-wizard\/\">Wizard<\/a> public house earlier in the afternoon of their first visit to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationaltrust.org.uk\/alderley-edge-and-cheshire-countryside\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Alderley Edge<\/a> the Wizard&#8217;s Well was Colin and Susan&#8217;s second clue towards the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20070928202001\/http:\/\/www.alderleyedge.manchester.museum\/texts\/jsa_manchester_mail2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Legend of Alderley<\/a><\/em> (<em>Weirdstone, Chapter 2, The Edge<\/em>):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;<em>&#8230;the children came upon a stone trough into which water was dripping from an overhanging cliff, and high in the rock was carved the face of a bearded man, and underneath was engraved :<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><em>DRINK OF THIS<br>AND TAKE THY FILL<br>FOR THE WATER FALLS<br>BY THE WIZHARDS WILL<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:8px\" class=\"\">Garner, A., 1960 (1989 edition),&nbsp;<em>The Weirdstone of Brisingamen<\/em>. William Collins \/ Lions. London. p21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/triskelepublishing.com\/weirdstonewalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_2760.jpg?resize=683%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/triskelepublishing.com\/weirdstonewalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_2760-scaled.jpg?resize=683%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 683w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/triskelepublishing.com\/weirdstonewalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_2760-scaled.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/triskelepublishing.com\/weirdstonewalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_2760-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/triskelepublishing.com\/weirdstonewalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_2760-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/triskelepublishing.com\/weirdstonewalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_2760-scaled.jpg?resize=1365%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1365w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/triskelepublishing.com\/weirdstonewalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_2760-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C450&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/triskelepublishing.com\/weirdstonewalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_2760-scaled.jpg?resize=850%2C1275&amp;ssl=1 850w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/triskelepublishing.com\/weirdstonewalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_2760-scaled.jpg?w=1707&amp;ssl=1 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Carving of the wizard with its accompanying inscription at the Wizard&#8217;s Well (Credit: James Wright)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">After their curiosity is aroused by these two sites they later ask Gowther to tell them about the wizard and his story (<em>Weirdstone, Chapter 3: Maggot-breed of Ymir<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">According to Alan Garner, in the 1978 television documentary\u00a0<em>The Writer\u2019s Workshop: Places and Things<\/em>, the well and its carvings were made by his great-great-grandfather Robert Garner in the nineteenth century. 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