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Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Greenodd Holy Well (Egton with Newland)Country: England
NOTE: This site is 3.137 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Cumbria Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Ulvertston Nearest Village: Greenodd
Map Ref: SD3144082770
Latitude: 54.236021N Longitude: 3.053373W
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
This well used to be in the county of Lancashire, but boundary changes now put it in Cumbria. Classified as a holy well and recorded on the Cumbria Historic Environment Record as HER No. 3342, the CHER notes tell us: "Supposed site of a medieval holy well (NAS 1975). No well could be located in 1978. The area is very low lying and regularly flooded by the river (Crake). The river has in the past changed course, and the gas board has put a large pipe throught the field, which may have affected the site (Thompson, site visit, 1978)."
The location of the well is shown on both Google Earth images and HE map search as being in a small area enclosed by earthen banks, although no sign of the well is visible.
The well is listed in the 1975 report by Clack and Gosling, "Archaeology in the North: Gazetteer, Northern Archaeological Survey (HMSO)".
Does anyone know anything more about this well, and why it has been classified as a holy well? Do you know what its waters were used for? Have you visited this site and have any photographs to add? Thank you.
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