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Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Birley SpaCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 1.421 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Yorkshire (South) Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Sheffield Nearest Village: Birley
Map Ref: SK40908361
Latitude: 53.347807N Longitude: 1.387085W
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 |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
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1 | Awful |
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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 |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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Holy Well or Sacred Spring in Yorkshire (South)
Birley Spa is now a modern spa hotel which is open for special events, but within the grounds of the current hotel is the original bath house. The Northern Antiquarian (TNA) tell us that "the belief that the site may have "an ancient origin, the spring being located along Neolithic trade routes and indeed implements have been found in the vicinity." See their page for Birley Spa, Birley, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, which gives directions, photographs and a brief archaeology and history of the area, together with the folklore.
To support the theory of ancient roots for this site, Pastscape Monument No 316456 gives brief details of Mesolithic "obliquely blunted points, truncated blades and batterbacks have been collected at Birley Spa ..... (found) near a footpath which crossed a knoll 200yds. south of Birley Spa House. This was once Birley Moor, but is now covered by a housing estate, the precise location being called Spa View Place."
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