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Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: St Helen''s Well (Whittle-le-Woods) Alternative Name: St Helen's Well (Brindle)Country: England
NOTE: This site is 2.254 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Lancashire Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Leyland Nearest Village: Whittle-le-Woods
Map Ref: SD58552242
Latitude: 53.696564N Longitude: 2.629252W
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 |
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Holy Well or Sacred Spring in Lancashire
The site of these wells is recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 42610, which tells us: "St. Helen's Well, Brindle, "(in 1899) a stone-lined pit, about seven feet square and four feet deep. On the southerly side of this pit, a few feet from it, is another similar stone pit of about the same size....an open stone channel is in situ, proved to carry the overflow water from the southernmost pit." By 1911, the following entry had been added: "In the rectory garden at Brindle is a seven-sided font of rough stone, 16" in diameter. It was recovered in the village [of Brindle] in 1907, and may have belonged to St. Helen's Well. The bowl is 12" wide and 7" deep, and there is no pedestal."
By 1958, Pastscape now records: "Nothing of antiquity is now to be seen. The two wells are now covered over with modern concrete slabs. Overflow water passes out through an iron pipe. The font, as described, is now within the church
at Brindle."
The Northern Antiquarian (TNA) also features a page for this well - see their entry for St. Helen’s Wells, Whittle-le-Woods, Lancashire, which gives directions for finding this site, together with an image of the 1848 OS map showing the location of the well, a drawing of the well from 1906 and a brief archaeology & history. TNA add that local folk dropped crooked pins into the well in the hope of future blessings.
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