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<< Our Photo Pages >> Holy Well (Lower Burnham) - Holy Well or Sacred Spring in England in Lincolnshire

Submitted by HOLYWELL on Monday, 24 January 2011  Page Views: 5805

Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Holy Well (Lower Burnham) Alternative Name: Well of the Blessed Redeemer; Alley Well
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 6.619 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Lincolnshire Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
 Nearest Village: Haxey
Map Ref: SE78520205
Latitude: 53.509282N  Longitude: 0.817488W
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
3 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
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3 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
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Holy Well (Lower Burnham)
Holy Well (Lower Burnham) submitted by HOLYWELL : The natural spring of clear water said to be dedicated to Jesus and associated with a Saxon battle. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Holy Well or Sacred Spring in Lincolnshire

This ancient Holy Well is “ ...dedicated to the ever-blessed Redeemer, and on the festival of His Ascension was supposed to possess the power of healing all sorts of deformities, weaknesses, and cutaneous diseases in children, numbers of which were brought from all parts to be dipped in it on that day.”

Antiquarian Stonehouse (1839) notes: “about one hundred and twenty years ago, the concourse of visitors was so great that a Village Feast was held at the same time… and at a much later period conveniences were annually made for the use of the bathers, and gingerbread-stalls and other slight reflections were provided on the spot. This practice has, however, of late years fallen altogether into disuse… The spring now appears in a dirty and neglected state.”

The spring arises and is called the being at the top of Holy Well lane, with Holy Well House the nearest dwelling. It had been for years only a dry, roughly rectangular, hollow when, quite recently, Mr. Horton, (editor of the Epworth Bells) and some colleagues, went to open it. ‘Within minutes of digging, water gushed out, and the hollow filled.’ No evidence of constructional material was seen and the well was fenced in and left. A sample of water was analysed and found to contain beneficial salts.

For more information see Pastscape Monument No. 59224 for Holy Well and the Battle of Maserfield; and The Northern Antiquarian's page for Holy Well, Lower Burnham, Haxey, Lincolnshire. TNA give directions for finding this site, together with a brief archaeology & history and local folklore.
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SE7802 : Pond near 'Holy Well' by David Brown
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SE7802 : Site of Holy Well, Lower Burnham by Tim Heaton
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SE7802 : Holy Well at High Burnham by Jonathan Thacker
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SE7802 : Strip fields at Low Burnham by Jonathan Thacker
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SE7802 : Peatlands Way and Trent Valley Way leaving Lower Burnham by Tim Heaton
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