Thank you. Would be nice to have a pub tea room again in Bryn Pydew for walkers and cyclists. Something like the Queens Head, but with a better view.
Not sure Pydew really has the passing trade? My speculation with a Skerryvore tea garden tends more towards a hobby than a serious business concern to keep the place going on its own?
Moving back a post or two. I don't know about wells despite (twice round) probably living in Pydew over 20 years and for most of that time knowing pydew means "well".
I'm not a Welsh speaker (and as stated before, Shropshire born) but do wonder what this/these wells were - man made or natural? I do know another Welsh word ffynnon and wonder if the latter would be a better fit for something natural???
Personally, we found no wells at either Old Swan or Skerryvore although there was a patch of ground that puzzled us at the latter. There was a circle that attracted more moss, on the left of the drive as you approach the house - largely an area, at least in my time where cowslips were abundant but as most of the land was, ,scratching, quickly reached the limestone beneath (little depth of soil). I'd think it was just the way water ran and drained from the drive.
The only natural sort of thing I'm thinking I know is further away. If you go down Bodysgallen woods and when you reach a sort of right hand twist in the track, you can instead of going to the hall and farm, cross a field and head down what I was told is called the nun's stepps before reaching Marl. I believe there is a spring there?