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Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: St Helen''s Well (Holbeck)Country: England
NOTE: This site is 2.598 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Yorkshire (West) Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Leeds Nearest Village: Holbeck (Leeds)
Map Ref: SE295329
Latitude: 53.791584N Longitude: 1.553685W
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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 |
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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 |
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3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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Holy Well or Sacred Spring in Yorkshire (West)
This is one of three spa wells in the Holbeck area of Leeds. Originally called St. Helen's Well, it later became Holbeck Spa Well, and was sited near St. Helen's Bridge. The Northern Antiquarian (TNA) feature a page for this now lost well - see their entry for St. Helen’s Well, Holbeck, Leeds, West Yorkshire, which tells us that this well was also associated with a chapel.
TNA adds that both these sites have long since disappeared, but the well was known to contain a high sulphur content.
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