<< Text Pages >> Lady Well (Belper) - Holy Well or Sacred Spring in England in Derbyshire
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Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Lady Well (Belper)Country: England
NOTE: This site is 0.364 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Derbyshire Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Belper
Map Ref: SK353472
Latitude: 53.020938N Longitude: 1.475209W
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 |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
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 Derbyshire
The Lady Well was sadly enclosed within an underground reservoir in the late 1800s, was visited by children, who took oatmeal and sugar, mixed in a mug or porringer with its waters. Hope (1883) notes:
“Was the Lady Well famous in days gone by for saintly and medicinal properties? If so its fame still lingers, unconsciously, perhaps, in the minds of the people, for they still make journeys of a mile or two, carrying with them a glass or a mug, to drink its waters. From Duffield, and other places round about, people used to come, years ago, in parties to the Lady Well, bringing not only vessels from which to drink the water, but ‘noggins’ in which to carry back a supply for home drinking. Afflicted persons have been seen bathing.”
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