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Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Lady Well (Leeds)Country: England
NOTE: This site is 1.104 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Yorkshire (West) Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Leeds
Map Ref: SE30603373
Latitude: 53.798980N Longitude: 1.536906W
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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Holy Well or Sacred Spring in Yorkshire (West)
The Northern Antiquarian (TNA) features a page for this now destroyed well, which used to be located 'deep in the heart of industrial Leeds' - see their entry for Lady Well, Leeds, West Yorkshire.
TNA include a brief archaeology & history and an image of the street plan showing Lady Lane, where the well used to be located. TNA adds: "The great historian and antiquarian Ralph Thoresby (1715) was the first to write of this great spring, which is now lost beneath the concrete buildings near Quarry Hill. He described it as, 'a noted spring…to this day called Lady Well and the adjoining way, Lady Lane.' In 1806 Edward Baines of Leeds described this spring of “soft, pure water,” also telling it to be on Lady Lane, saying that 'At the bottom of this street is a spring of excellent water, called Lady-Well, which affords a copious supply of that necessary article to this populous part of town.'"
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