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St. Helen's well. The name has become corrupted by the neighbouring peasantry in a most singular manner. On my first visit to the locality, I inquired of an elderly woman if she could inform me in what direction I should proceed to find _St. Helen's well_. She at first said she had never heard of such a place, but after considerable hesitation she at length exclaimed with some animation, in the dialect of the district,
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Oh! it ull be Stelling well yo mean, I'll be bun. A writer under the signature,
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Leicestriensis, in vol. 6, p. 152, of
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Notes and Queries, speaking of a St. Austin's well, near Leicester says:--
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On making some inquiries, a few years ago, of the 'oldest inhabitant' of the neighbourhood, respecting _St. Augustine's well_, he at first pleaded ignorance of it, but at length, suddenly enlightened, exclaimed, 'Oh! you mean Tosting's well.' Cakes baked for the lace-makers' feasts in Buckinghamshire, in honour of St. Andrew, their patron saint, are locally termed
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Tandry Cakes.