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Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Ab KettlebyCountry: England County: Leicestershire and Rutland Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Melton Mowbray Nearest Village: Ab Kettleby
Map Ref: SK724229
Latitude: 52.798812N Longitude: 0.927621W
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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 |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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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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Ab Kettleby's Holy Well is in a picturesque setting near the village pond and surrounded by orange-coloured ironstone cottages.
Traditionally, it provided a good supply and never ran dry. After the construction of new houses nearby in 1992 the well dried up, but by 2001 was flowing copiously again. Unfortunately in 2001 an ugly metal grating was fitted that blocks all access to the water. The present well structure is a truncated pyramid just over a yard high and surmounted by what at first glance appears to be an upturned font but was probably a previous basin for the well.
Rheumatic illnesses were said to be cured by the water.
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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