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Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Ragged Spring (Healing) Alternative Name: Ragged WellCountry: England County: Lincolnshire Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Grimsby Nearest Village: Healing
Map Ref: TA199096
Latitude: 53.569314N Longitude: 0.190923W
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
Sited just south of Wells Road and the Oldfield Drain, near Wells Farm, west of the village of Healing, this healing well is featured on the Northern Antiquarian (TNA) - see their entry for Ragged Spring, Healing, Lincolnshire.
TNA gives directions for finding this well/spring (although they add that "one may need to beat through the thickets to find it"), a photograph, a brief archaeology & history and local folklore.
TNA adds: "The springs are still marked on the current OS map, as Healing Wells, in a small plantation, but they are, as the photo shows, only marked by circular indentations in the ground. The first spring is the easier one to trace and it appears to have holes, although these may be made by animals. The springs are now quite dry, perhaps that the clogging of the springs noted above continued as the waters were forgotten, resulting in the current situation. There is no clear lining around the well or other structures. Lying around the springs are a range of metal buckets in various stages of decay and some metal pieces which may be remains of a metal fence around it."
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