Here, the strange name ‘Synagogue Well‘ has inspired a ballad. It says that the Wandering Jew once paused to drink at a spring in Frodsham, and in gratitude built a wall round it so that it became a well; he prophesied that the wall would still be there long after Frodsham Castle had become a ruin—as indeed it did, in 1654. A less romantic explanation of the name is that it is a corruption of ‘St Agnes’ Well‘.