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Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: St. Cloud's Well (Longthorpe) Alternative Name: Longthorpe Holy Well (Peterborough)Country: England
NOTE: This site is 2.368 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Northamptonshire Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Peterborough Nearest Village: Longthorpe
Map Ref: TL16789815
Latitude: 52.568649N Longitude: 0.278419W
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 |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
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1 | Awful |
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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 |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
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3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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Holy Well or Sacred Spring in Northamptonshire
This holy well is recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 364086, which tells us: "Near the old Manor House at Longthorpe is a holy well. Included in Morton's list of Holy Wells. The holy well is a natural spring which has been incorporated into a 17/18th century grotto. The spring feeds the adjacent fish ponds ... The spring has been incorporated into a garden layout, perhaps early 18th century. Sir John Bernard was probably responsible for the construction of the well in the mid 18th century."
The Northern Antiquarian (TNA) also features a page for this well - see their entry for the Holy Well, Longthorpe, Peterborough, Northamptonshire, which gives directions for finding the well, together with a photograph, an archaeology & history and local folklore.
TNA adds: "The site’s greatest fame stems from the tunnel mentioned ... by Thompson, which is said to run from the Holy Well to the Abbey at Peterborough. A blocked-up doorway in the third chamber is described as the entrance to this tunnel, although one can imagine that the nature of the whole edifice would lend to such a belief. Certainly records show that the Abbey was supplied by a conduit at the Infirmary end of the Chapel of St Lawrence. However, it is more likely that this took its waters from the St Leonard’s Well at Spital, whose water also filled the Boroughbury Pools and Swan’s Pool."
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