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<< Our Photo Pages >> Fry's Well - Holy Well or Sacred Spring in England in Somerset

Submitted by KiwiBetsy on Sunday, 28 November 2004  Page Views: 8758

Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Fry's Well
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 1.069 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Somerset Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Chilcompton
Map Ref: ST649514
Latitude: 51.260671N  Longitude: 2.504411W
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
5 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
3

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Fry's Well
Fry's Well submitted by KiwiBetsy : A nicely renovated well. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Fry's Well stands beside the footpath of one of the main streets in Chilcompton. Its plaque reads "Fry's Well c.1700 Renovated 1987".
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Re: Fry's Well by Anonymous on Sunday, 04 February 2007
This well is across the rodd from the house I was born in. It needed to be restored after a large truck backed into it and destroyed the much of the front - in it original form there was no water leaking over the RHS of the front.
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