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Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Wine Wife WellCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 3.092 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Yorkshire (North) Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Ripon Nearest Village: Sawley
Map Ref: SE23216742
Latitude: 54.102151N Longitude: 1.646551W
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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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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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Holy Well or Sacred Spring in Yorkshire (North)
When Edna Whelan searched for this spring in 1986, she could only find a "boggy mess". She tied a cotton scrap to a birch tree near the pool hoping the guardian spirit would be encouraged to return.
It is recorded on the Yorkshire Holy Wells website (1999)
In 2005, volunteers and Sawley Parish Council turned the area around the well into Picking Gill Nature Reserve. The well now has a boardwalk to view it from!
The Wine Wife Well is a natural spring that never runs dry. Local farmers used it when their own supplies ran dry. The stone trough is surrounded by ferns and hart's tongue.
Picking Nature Reserve is just off the B6265 Ripon to Pateley Bridge road. The well is easy to walk to and there is space for a couple of parked cars near to the footpath to the well. Also a nice place for a picnic.
Near by is Fountains Abbey and Aldfield which was well-known for it's Sulphur Springs in the C 18th.
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