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Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Hobbie Nobles Well (Bewcastle) Alternative Name: Hobbie Nobles Well (Park Head)Country: England
NOTE: This site is 1.874 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Cumbria Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Carlisle Nearest Village: Bewcastle
Map Ref: NY5624076200
Latitude: 55.078311N Longitude: 2.686944W
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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Holy Well or Sacred Spring in Cumbria
Information about this holy well comes from the Cumbria Historic Environment Record, reference HER 113. This simply tells us: "there is a local tradition that this was once a ha' or holy well'. There is a fenced off natural spring with no evidence of stonework".
The well is shown on the OS 6-inch map of 1957, and a pool/depression is visible on Google Earth images.
The well is also featured in the Old Cumbria Gazetteer - see their entry for Hobby Noble's Well, but they classify this as simply a spring, with relatively recent origins. Hobby Noble was an outlaw or 'freebooter' who fled to the Scottish Borders, and is also the hero of a folk ballad.
Does anyone have any more information about this well? Are you able to confirm that it is a holy well or not? If a holy well, do you know what healing and/or restorative uses its waters were used for?
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