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<< Text Pages >> Holy Well (Careby and Aunby) - Holy Well or Sacred Spring in England in Lincolnshire

Submitted by HOLYWELL on Sunday, 16 January 2011  Page Views: 5796

Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Holy Well (Careby and Aunby) Alternative Name: Hele well
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 7.01 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Lincolnshire Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Stamford  Nearest Village: Careby Aunby
Map Ref: TF00031598
Latitude: 52.732217N  Longitude: 0.520058W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
4 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
1 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Holy Well or Sacred Spring in Lincolnshire

Here is an interesting site which gave its name to the hamlet. A local tradition claims that there was once a religious house by the well that was the home to a holy woman called Ade. She bathed the eyes of the blind and thus restored their sight. It would seem that the well was named after her. The settlement was called Bredestorp, which was mentioned in Doomsday but afterwards disappeared. (Earl Morcar, brother-in-law of King Harold is said to have held land in Bredestorp). Now it lies in the private grounds of Holywell Hall which is open once a year. In fact there are two wells, one being a rectangular dry chamber bsside the small parish church of St. Wilfred now a private chapel and built in 1700s but possibly on an earlier site and certainly with stones from Aunby church. The other a circular well full of water in a copse between the chapel and the well. Its waters are sadly not accessible. This may be the St. Winifreds also mentioned.
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TF0016 : St Wilfrid Church, Holywell by Wendy Parkinson
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TF0016 : St Wilfred&#8217;s Church at Holywell, near Bourne Lincolnshire by Rex Needle
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TF0016 : Inside St Wilfred&#8217;s church at Holywell, near Bourne, Lincolnshire by Rex Needle
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TF0016 : St.Wilfrid's church by Richard Croft
by Richard Croft
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TF0016 : St.Wilfrid's church interior by Richard Croft
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