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Memorial.  Dated 1901.  Commemorates the site of Wulfruna's well.  The Lady Wulfrun(a) is noted as having endowed the Collegiate church of Wolverhampton with a Dean and Prebendaries, AD994, giving her name to the town: Wulfrun's Heanton (High Town). (Literature:   H. Thorold, Shell County Guides: Staffordshire, 1978, p.186) Wulfruna established a manor house in the Gorsebrook area of the town. The spot known as Wulfruna's Well is supposed to be a reference to a spring which ran past the manor house. But some historians feel that the spring was probably mythical and the present monument on the site is a Victorian drinking fountain. Wulfruna's well was situated near the northern Anglo Saxon Boundary of Wolverhampton.

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