<< Text Pages >> Pickel Well (Birstall) - Holy Well or Sacred Spring in England in Yorkshire (West)
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Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Pickel Well (Birstall)Country: England
NOTE: This site is 2.753 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Yorkshire (West) Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Birstall
Map Ref: SE21802633
Latitude: 53.732911N Longitude: 1.671027W
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 well features on The Northern Antiquarian (TNA) - see their entry for Pickel Well, Birstall, West Yorkshire. TNA tell us the well seems to have been built over in recent years, having been one of the main water supplies for Gomersal and Birstall in earlier times (the name Pickel or Pikel meaning 'heavy rain').
The TNA page contains an image of the 1847 OS map showing the location of the well, a brief archaeology & history and local folklore.
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