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St Mary's Well, Brough
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St Mary's Well
Street:-   High Street
locality:-   Brough
civil parish:-   Brough (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   well
locality type:-   spring
coordinates:-   NY795146
1Km square:-   NY7914
10Km square:-   NY71

hearsay:-  
Medicinal well, opposite the maket cross. It is said to have been covered with a millstone, through whose eye the water was drawn.
The vicar had a diploma from the Pope giving him the right to the gifts brought by pilgrims to the well.

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