<< Text Pages >> St Helen's Well (Sefton) - Holy Well or Sacred Spring in England in Lancashire
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Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: St Helen''s Well (Sefton)Country: England
NOTE: This site is 2.446 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Lancashire Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Village: Sefton
Map Ref: SD35450129
Latitude: 53.504321N Longitude: 2.974681W
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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Jceps70 visited on 21st Jan 2018 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 Access: 5 Just a few seconds walk from the main road. Site virtually at roadside. However don’t take a purposeful trip here. Recommend you to go Langley mere nature reserve about 2 miles up the road as your main trip.
Well itself is not visible as it’s been covered. All that’s left is a slab depicting it’s the well and the metal rails. Feels kind of sad and neglected 😩
This well is recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 39043 which tells us: "St Helen's Well has been filled in and walled round with a wall 1.2 metres square. The enclosed portion is uncovered and about 2 metres below the level of the wall can be seen the rubbish which lies on the filled-in area. A wooden canopy has been built over the well, but it has been badly mutilated and torn down in parts. The whole is surrounded by an iron railing."
The Northern Antiquarian (TNA) also features a page for this holy well - see their entry for St. Helen’s Well, Sefton, Lancashire, which gives directions for finding this well, together with an image of the 1850 OS map showing the location of the well, a description and local folklore. TNA also include historical accounts from 19th and early 20th century sources.
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