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Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: GreethamCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 2.409 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Leicestershire and Rutland Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Oakham Nearest Village: Greetham
Map Ref: SK924146
Latitude: 52.721170N Longitude: 0.633405W
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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The well is at the village church of St. Mary's. The well head has stone surrounds, a substantial and well-cared for structure.
The well is now dry and the cistern at the back suggests the flow has always been meagre or erratic or possibly that the structure is fed by piped water.
On one stone is the following inscription (similar to the Wishing Well at Ashwell):
All ye who hither come to drink
rest not your thoughts below
remember Jacob's Well and think
whence living waters flow.
Based on the description by, and used by kind permission of, Bob Trubshaw, from his Interactive Little-known Leicestershire and Rutland CD-ROM.
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