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Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: St. Catherine's Well (Swell)Country: England
NOTE: This site is 4.305 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Somerset Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Village: Swell
Map Ref: ST360231
Latitude: 51.003712N Longitude: 2.913504W
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 |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
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1 | Awful |
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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 |
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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 |
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Holy Well in Somerset. This delightful wayside well was apparently rediscovered in the 1980s by two local people. It is recorded by both antiquarian Horne and Tongue but thought lost.
The former records:
" A well named after St Catherine, patroness of the little church, is said to have existed here."
The latter records that it was:
" .. a wishing well. You must go around it three times at sunrise, but if you crawled around it counter clockwise it brought an ill wish."
The well consists of a small stone chamber set into the bank of a triangle of ground and is pleasingly restful.
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