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Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: High Wall Well (Bramley Meade) Alternative Name: Hey Well; Hey Wall WellCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 1.108 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Lancashire Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Nelson Nearest Village: Bramley Meade / Whalley
Map Ref: SD73663702
Latitude: 53.828770N Longitude: 2.401665W
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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Pastscape Monument No. 44487 tells us that this well is enclosed by a cone shaped structure of rough limestone, and in 1961 was still water filled. They add: "No evidence to associate it with a holy well was obtained".
The Journal of Antiquities also includes an entry for High Wall Well, Bramley Meade, Whalley, Lancashire, which tells us this well is in the grounds of the former Bramley Meade Maternity Hospital, and the structure is thought to date back to the times when Cistercian monks lived at the nearby abbey. "It has, however, never been considered to be a holy or medicinal well as such though it was used by the monks and, in more recent times, maybe by the maternity hospital itself".
The Journal includes photographs, a description (the well may originally have been a plunge pool or a baptistry?), plus a list of reference sources for more information.
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