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Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Goff WellCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 1.005 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Yorkshire (West) Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Keighley Nearest Village: Hainworth
Map Ref: SE0615038822
Latitude: 53.845605N Longitude: 1.908009W
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 |
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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)
In 1858, William Keighley claimed Goff Well as one of Keighley’s three former holy wells, together with Jennet’s Well and True Well, and maintained that it had been sanctified by a mediaeval hermit who supposedly lived at Hermit Hole (a row of houses above Ingrow; “Keighley, Past and Present”, Arthur Hall, Virtue and Co., London). He also argued that “Goff” derives from the Danish word for red, so the hermit must have had red hair! (actually, the surname is from the Welsh for red). Clearly, Keighley’s authority is insufficient to support Goff Well having been a holy well, but the well is in a small field that has no obvious use other than to allow public access at the time of enclosure in the late 18th or early 19th century [the parliamentary enclosure of Hainworth and Lees was in 1862 (Barbara English, “Yorkshire Enclosure Awards”, University of Hull Press, Hull, 1985, p. 62), but this part of the manor was already enclosed, because the fields are shown on the 1852 OS map. However, the fields are fairly regular, and the walls look modern, so I cannot imagine the enclosure having been before the late 18th century], suggesting that it was seen as somehow special.
The Northern Antiquarian (TNA) also features a page for this healing well - see their entry for Goff Well, Keighley, West Yorkshire. TNA give directions for finding this well, together with a photograph, a brief archaeology & history and local folklore.
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