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Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Marsden Well/Spring Alternative Name: The Dipping WellCountry: England County: Lancashire Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Preston Nearest Village: Samlesbury
Map Ref: SD607319
Latitude: 53.781933N Longitude: 2.5979W
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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Gibbo visited on 15th Oct 2016 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 3 Access: 3 Visited today (see photo). Was difficult to find in the undergrowth and the surrounding area was very marshy.
The water level was very low and quite a lot of mud in it.
There is, however, some uncertainty as to the age of Marsden Well. It was probably made into what it resembles today during the 13th or 14th centuries, and has seen some repairs since then. But the spring itself is almost certainly of Saxon origins. Here the masses would have been baptised into the Christian faith by wandering missionaries. It is often referred to as a 'baptistry well' because of that. The name 'Dipping Well' is also given to this site. It literally means where one can dip parts of the body in order to receive some sort of cure, be that miraculous, or not.
Down the centuries Marsden Well (also called Priests' Well) has been adopted by the Roman Catholic community, rather like its near neighbour, Lady Well at Fernyhalgh, although this well appears not to have had a dedication to the Blessed Virgin Mary. I rather think Marsden Well is now almost forgotten. But that might change.
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