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Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Holy Well (Careby and Aunby) Alternative Name: Hele wellCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 2.266 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
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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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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 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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