Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Alum Well

Alum Well, a mineral spring in Dysart parish, Fife, a little W of Dysart town. Its water has long been famed for curing sores: and, besides being much visited on the spot, is often sent in bottles to considerable distances.


(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a mineral spring"   (ADL Feature Type: "springs (hydrographic)")
Administrative units: Dysart Parish       Fife County

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