<< Our Photo Pages >> Billey Keld - Holy Well or Sacred Spring in England in Yorkshire (West)
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Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Billey KeldCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 1.918 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Yorkshire (West) Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Masham Nearest Village: Grewelthorpe
Map Ref: SE2251376193
Latitude: 54.181027N Longitude: 1.656558W
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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Anne T visited on 31st May 2021 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 Access: 4 Billey Keld Well, Grewelthorpe: With some very lively bullocks in the field, we decided not to venture into the field through the gate to look at well. However, we managed to see some of the structure from the roadside.
A local lady walking her dog stopped to talk to us and say she remembers visiting the well to collect water when she was a child.
This is a modest spring flowing into a stone surround between two fields west of the village of Grewelthorpe, right on the bend of a small lane, but accessible only through the gate at the t-junction a few yards to the north. It appears on the Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 map but otherwise has no known history or associations. 'Keld' is a common northern word, Scandinavian in origin, meaning 'spring', while 'Billey' could be a version of the word 'pill', 'billing', 'boiling', and other variants, referring to the water bubbling up from the ground.
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