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Submitted by Anne T on Friday, 02 September 2022 Page Views: 373
Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Priest's Well (Catlowdy) Alternative Name: Priest's Well (Nicholforest)Country: England
NOTE: This site is 0.454 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Cumbria Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Carlisle Nearest Village: Catlowdy
Map Ref: NY4573976887
Latitude: 55.083445N Longitude: 2.851532W
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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Anne T couldn't find on 30th Aug 2022 Priest's Well, Catlowdy: Tried to find, but the footpath appears block by recently constructed areas for horses. Not wanting to disturb these beautiful animals, we gave up on our search, and will try and seek permission to enter from another direction at a future date.
Recorded in Jim Taylor Page's 1990 publication "Cumbrian Holy Wells" (page 27), this well is also shown on modern OS maps, and also comes up on the Historic England map search for this location.
Page describes this well as being "on the north side (of) Chapel Hill. Site of ancient chapel. Little evidence". [Note that the site of the old chapel is approximately at NY 46673 76779 , to the east of this well, location taken from the old OS maps from the National Library of Scotland - see the 1864 25 inch OS map (shared under the terms of their Creative Commons license)].
The Old Cumbria Gazetteer describes the water from this well running into Priest's Syke.
We tried to find this well, and found the sturdy, well-maintained stile to the footpath leading to the well from the B6318, but very quickly found our way blocked by (electrified?) grass enclosures recently built for some horses. Not wanting to disturb these beautiful animals, we discontinued our search.
So, this well remains on my list of sites to visit, but if anyone has any information, or photographs of this well, I'd be really pleased if you could leave a comment here. Thank you.
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