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<< Our Photo Pages >> Wulfruna's Well - Holy Well or Sacred Spring in England in West Midlands

Submitted by TimPrevett on Thursday, 27 September 2007  Page Views: 10553

Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Wulfruna's Well Alternative Name: Lady Wulfruna's Well
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 2.908 km away from the location you searched for.

County: West Midlands Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Wolverhampton
Map Ref: SJ9102600470
Latitude: 52.601942N  Longitude: 2.133934W
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
2 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
1 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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Wulfruna's Well
Wulfruna's Well submitted by TimPrevett : The remains of Wulfruna's Well; now dry, tap / spout removed and locked off beside the road just north of Wolverhampton centre. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Holy Well or Sacred Spring in West Midlands

Wufruna's Well sits to the north side of Gorsebrook Rd, between a bridge and roundabout near the Racecourse.

More information can be found at Pastscape Monument No. 77046, which tells us this is the site of a pre-1901 well with traditional 10th century associations, the well now covered by the railway embankment sidings, but with a stone-built pillar formerly fitted with a pipe supplying a small stone trough. The well is also scheduled as Historic England List ID 1280432, where it is called the Wulfruna Memorial.

The Journal of Antiquities also includes a page for this well - see their entry for Wulfruna’s Well, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, which includes a photograph of the well housing, and background information about the well and Lady Wulfruna. The Journal adds: "The well water originally had healing qualities that were said to be very therapeutic with strong medicinal values. In the Middle Ages and, indeed, upto the Victorian age, faithful pilgrims came here in the hope of a miraculous cure. And no doubt they did receive a miraculous cure because the well continued to be in use for many centuries after."
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Wulfruna's Well
Wulfruna's Well submitted by NatEvans88 : Wulfruna's Well (Vote or comment on this photo)

Wulfruna's Well
Wulfruna's Well submitted by NatEvans88 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Wulfruna's Well
Wulfruna's Well submitted by NatEvans88 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Wulfruna's Well
Wulfruna's Well submitted by TimPrevett : The remains of Wulfruna's Well; now dry, tap / spout removed and locked off beside the road just north of Wolverhampton centre. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Wulfruna's Well
Wulfruna's Well submitted by TimPrevett

Wulfruna's Well
Wulfruna's Well submitted by TimPrevett

Wulfruna's Well
Wulfruna's Well submitted by TimPrevett

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Re: Wulfruna's Well by davidmorgan on Saturday, 05 January 2013
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Re: Wulfruna's Well by Anonymous on Friday, 04 January 2013
I'm an ex-pat Wulfrunian. As a lad in the 1940s and 50s I remember Wulfruna's Well being higher up the bank at the bottom of which it now stands. Today, it seems to be right beside the Gorsebrook Road footpath.
My first job was at Stafford Road Loco Repair Works which stood on the top of the bank above the Well. I was told there that, when the Factory was built, the spring was diverted from its original course so that the water would not disturb the footings of the Factory buildings.
That would be the reason, I suppose, for the Well to be dry.
That Well was known to most people living in Wolverhampton, certainly until the 1960s.
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