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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Nell’s Point,
 
in Barry Island. Famous for a well to which women resort on Holy Thursday, and having washed their eyes with the water of the well, each woman drops into it a pin.   1
 


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