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Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: St. Helen's Well (Wrawby)Country: England County: Lincolnshire Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Brigg Nearest Village: Wrawby
Map Ref: TA0137907720
Latitude: 53.556323N Longitude: 0.471089W
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
| 0 | no data |
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Holy Well or Sacred Spring in Lincolnshire
St Helen’s Well now arises in an underground chamber of a reservoir and pumping house built in the 1850s . Historian Abraham de la Pryme writing in the 17th century notes:
“having passed through Brigg on our way towards Melton, we went by a great spring, famous in days of old, called St Helen’s Well.”
The pumping house is a plain rectangular building without windows, about the size of a small garage, built of yellow gault brick with a Welsh slate roof and York stone gable copings with the spring arising in a square chamber within. Access requires the farmer who fortunately is a local historian.
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