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Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Serpent''s Well (Chipping Norton)Country: England
NOTE: This site is 0.254 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Oxfordshire Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Chipping Norton
Map Ref: SP310270
Latitude: 51.940645N Longitude: 1.550454W
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 Oxfordshire
The Northern Antiquarian (TNA) features a page for this now lost spring, which was "described in field-name listings from the 1770 Enclosure Acts, but nothing seems to have been written about it since." See the TNA entry for Serpent’s Well, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire for local folklore.
TNA asks: "So, to those of you who live in and around Chipping Norton (where I spent two very good years living .... at the Rollright Stones – what has become of it? Where exactly is it? And does anyone know anything more behind this tale and any further history behind the ‘Serpent’s Well’?
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