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Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Spink Well (Bradford)Country: England
NOTE: This site is 2.606 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Yorkshire (West) Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Bradford
Map Ref: SE16533410
Latitude: 53.802940N Longitude: 1.750497W
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 |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
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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 |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
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Holy Well or Sacred Spring in Yorkshire (West)
The Northern Antiquarian (TNA) features a page for this healing well - see their entry for the Spink Well, Bradford, West Yorkshire, which gives directions for finding this site, together with photographs, a description and local folklore.
Sited not far from Bradford City Centre, the well now offers only a muddy trickle of water which flows into a trough. TNA adds: "The Spink Well was highlighted on the 1832 boundary commission report map of Bradford; then listed in the 1850 Tithe Awards; and of course featured on the earliest Ordnance Survey map a few years later. In 1788, below the spring itself, a Spinkwell House was built which advertised health-giving cold baths and used the waters from this well to supply people with its health-giving virtues. This Spink Well house also had a most curious history: the gravestones of those who died in the plague of 1645 were built into the walls of the well-house here! They were uncovered during the construction of Peel Park in the 19th century, a short distance away."
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