Huntingdonshire. H.Amertox
DIRECTORY.] HUNTINGDONSHIRE. H.AMERTOX. Birch Frederick Peregrine COMMERCIAL. [Martin George, farmer Trowe-r Lionel, The ManDr house I Ellington William Henry, farmer Rowel! Freder·ick, farmer HAIL WESTON, anciently called "Helowstone" m• Elizabeth. Raphael Hollinshead, the well-knowa "Halenstone," is a village and parish, on the borders chronicler of that period, whose histories were pub- of Bedfordshire and near the Kim, a tributary of the , lished in 1577, refers at some length to the wells of Ouse, and on the road from St. Neots to Kimbolton, 3 Hail Weston, and to the great repute of the waters miles north-west from St. Neots station on the main yielded by them as remedies for diseases of the skin, line of the Great Northern railway, 7 south-east from dimness of sight and other affections. A short poem Kimbolton and 9 south-west from Huntingdon, in the by Michael Drayton, "The Holy Wells of Hailweston" Southern division of the county, hundred and petty describes these springs; and their characters and sessional division of Toseland, union and county court reputed medicinal properties are also mentioned by district of St. Neots, rural deanery of St. Neots, arch- Fuller the historian, and by Camden and otherli. deaconry of Huntingdon and diocese of Ely. The church Later on the wells fell into disuse, in consequence of of St. Nicholas is a small edifice of rubble, brick and the land surrounding them having been much tres- wood, in the Early English style, consisting of chancel passed upon, and therefore enclosed by the owners ; and nave under one roof, porch on the south side, and but in 1815, samples of the water yielded by the two a wooden tower at the west end covered with oak mineral springs were submitted to analysis by Dr.
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