<< Text Pages >> Bere's Well - Holy Well or Sacred Spring in England in Wiltshire
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Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Bere's WellCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 0.571 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Wiltshire Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Westbury
Map Ref: ST8737351094
Latitude: 51.258865N Longitude: 2.182337W
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 |
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 |
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Holy Well or Sacred Spring in Wiltshire
A spring flows into a trough recessed in an alcove. Pevsner mentions a timber frame in his county guide published in 1963 but this has long since disappeared. A date of 1885 is inscribed into the stone surround.
"In Bratton Road, near the junction with Warminster Road, there is a two-storied building with timber-framed upper part of different dates. This was formerly called Bere's Well, and a spring rising beneath it is carried under Bratton Road and by underground conduit down Church Street." - British History Online.
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