<< Our Photo Pages >> Whitwick Spring - Holy Well or Sacred Spring in England in Leicestershire and Rutland
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Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Whitwick SpringCountry: England County: Leicestershire and Rutland Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Whitwick
Map Ref: SK435163
Latitude: 52.742583N Longitude: 1.357094W
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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St John the Baptist's church at Whitwick is situated in a natural amphitheatre.
This spring is under the chancel and is now piped out to flow into the Grace Dieu Brook, but in the nineteenth century the water was used to power the bellows of the church organ!
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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