-
Welcome to this forum . We are a worldwide group with a common interest in Birmingham and its history. While here, please follow a few simple rules. We ask that you respect other members, thank those who have helped you and please keep your contributions on-topic with the thread.
We do hope you enjoy your visit. BHF Admin Team
Sutton Park Roman History: Rowton / Rownton / Roman-ton Well
- Thread starter Dave M
- Start date
This is a letter by a Mr Alsop raising questions about some new OS map omission. Is this the same well as on Mort's map (if so, originally Rownton Well/Roman-ton Well) and quite likely connected to a small Roman outpost and the Icknield Way/Icknield Street/Ryknild Street.
Source: British Newspaper Archive
Source: British Newspaper Archive
Last edited:
Pedrocut
Master Barmmie
“It’s long been associated with “medicinal/curative” qualities. A Sutton Coldfield local history piece notes people bathing there and even mentions that water from the well was collected and taken to Birmingham Eye Hospital until the 1930s.”
Pedrocut
Master Barmmie
Ribston-Turner (1893) notes that:..
“Rowton Well lies near the Roman Ikenild Street, and has therefore a claim to very early fame. Rohedon was the name of a family in the neighbourhood, temp. Edward I., and there was also a Rohedon Hill and a Rohedon Green at Erdington. This name, probably the origin of Rowton, may be of early derivation, and there is a tumulus near the well which favours that view, yet a dedication to the Holy Rood in Saxon days may possibly be the original source of the name.”
(Holy and Healing Wells)
“Rowton Well lies near the Roman Ikenild Street, and has therefore a claim to very early fame. Rohedon was the name of a family in the neighbourhood, temp. Edward I., and there was also a Rohedon Hill and a Rohedon Green at Erdington. This name, probably the origin of Rowton, may be of early derivation, and there is a tumulus near the well which favours that view, yet a dedication to the Holy Rood in Saxon days may possibly be the original source of the name.”
(Holy and Healing Wells)
I've set up this new, dedicated thread as, Lyn points out, the history of this Well is not easy to find in the long, general Sutton Park History thread. I've also moved posts about the Well from that thread to this one.
Last edited: