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Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: St John''s Well (Welham)Country: England
NOTE: This site is 8.1 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Nottinghamshire Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Retford Nearest Village: Welham
Map Ref: SK72558280
Latitude: 53.337141N Longitude: 0.911915W
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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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3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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Holy Well or Sacred Spring in Nottinghamshire
The Northern Antiquarian (TNA) features a page for this unusually sited well - see their entry for St. John’s Well, Welham, Nottinghamshire, which includes photographs, directions for finding St. John's Well House, a brief archaeology & history and local folklore.
TNA tells us this is: "One of the most unusually sited of Nottinghamshire’s holy wells is St. John’s Well at Welham. It lies beneath a private kitchen floor in a house in Bonemill Lane in Welham, just off the Clarborough Road out of Retford", and adds: "It is shown on Chapman’s map of Nottinghamshire (1774) as ‘Well House’. Piercy (1828) gives the greatest information and states that the hamlet of Welham was named after St. John’s Well whose waters contained magnesium and gypsum and was: '“good for rheumatics and scorbutic diseases. Its waters formed into a large bath, and remained entire during the early part of the 18th century, it was famous for many cures, but latterly it has lost much of its celebrity.John Hutchinson, Esq. erected a cottage adjoining, and enclosed the bath, to preserve it from injury. Cold baths like this were formerly regarded with superstitious reverence, being supposed to possess a sovereign remedy for agues such as rheumatism'."
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