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<< Our Photo Pages >> Berkswell - Holy Well or Sacred Spring in England in Warwickshire

Submitted by jamesrattue on Friday, 26 October 2007  Page Views: 8542

Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Berkswell
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 5.399 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Warwickshire Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Coventry  Nearest Village: Berkswell
Map Ref: SP244791
Latitude: 52.409364N  Longitude: 1.642731W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
4 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
3 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
5 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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alchemille visited on 15th May 2020 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 5 Access: 5 Nice village in the borough of Solihull, near Balsall Common. In some old documents we found the names: Beorcoles well or Beorcol’s spring and Berchewelle, the name could originate from the anglosaxon word: "berc" which in modern English is a "birch". The English place names society suggested that the name Berkswell means the Well of Bercul. A Bercul is noted in a 748AD document drawn up by Mercian King Ethalbald which granted the church indemnity from any services or taxation. It is said that the area was Christianized by travelling monks from the city of Lichfield. A local leader, Bercul, is said to have been baptised in the well in the 8th Century.

Hodur visited on 3rd Jun 2018 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 2 Access: 5 Very easy access as it's next to a road. Ambience is not great as, although the road is quiet, it's still next to a road and people's homes overlook the site. Condition is fantastic for a site this old.



Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3.5 Ambience: 3.5 Access: 5

Berkswell
Berkswell submitted by jamesrattue : The holy well at Berkswell, seen on 15th October 2007. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Holy Well or Sacred Spring in Warwickshire

Allegedly a baptismal holy well, this large bath-well is very easy to find, just down a slope outside the gate of the churchyard of St John the Baptist's, Berkswell. The water seems to flow southwards into the 16-foot square bath, though it's difficult to tell, and then enters a smaller bath to the south which has steps leading down into the water from either side. There's an inscription on the upper bath recording its restoration in 1851 (or perhaps 1831 - that's difficult to tell as well!).

Of course the village takes its name from this spring - 'Berchewelle' in Domesday Book - though the meaning is obscure. The church seems to have had some ancient significance and may be a second-rank minster: it has a Norman crypt, very unusually for a village church, and John Leland reckoned that a St Milred (who may have been an 8th-century bishop of Worcester) was buried here.
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SP2479 : War Memorial, Berkswell by David Stowell
by David Stowell
©2005(licence)
SP2479 : The Church of St John the Baptist, Berkswell by David Stowell
by David Stowell
©2005(licence)
SP2479 : The well, Berkswell by Keith Williams
by Keith Williams
©2009(licence)
SP2479 : Berkswell: The well where Bercul was reputedly baptised in c8th 1 by Michael Garlick
by Michael Garlick
©2016(licence)
SP2479 : Berkswell: The well where Bercul was reputedly baptised in c8th 2 by Michael Garlick
by Michael Garlick
©2016(licence)

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