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Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Sheriff's Well (Greenodd) Alternative Name: Sheriffs Well (Well Wood)Country: England County: Cumbria Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Ulverston Nearest Village: Greenodd
Map Ref: SD3150082130
Latitude: 54.230278N Longitude: 3.052306W
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
Sited between the A590 to the west and the channel of the River Leven to its east, this well is classified as a holy well in the Cumbria Historic Environment Record, number 2555. Now destroyed by quarrying, they tell us "Sheriffs Well in Sheriffs Well Wood is listed as a holy well (Taylor's 'Ancient Crosses and Holy Wells of Lancs', 1906, pages 300 & 307)), but that site appears to have been destroyed by quarrying, but according to ET Thompson (CHER inspector) the well has 'long ago been piped - water flows from an old pipe into a series of three troughs, now partly overgrown". Taylor adds: "There is another well called 'Sheriff's Well' in an old bakehouse at SD 3143 8244 (some 320m to the NNW), but the owner has never heard it described as a holy well."
The name of the well is preserved in the local vicinity, with a Sheriffs Well Close, near the given grid reference for the well in the bakehouse, in Greenodd.
Sheriffs Well is shown on the 6 inch OS map of 1850, at the grid location given above - see the National Library of Scotland map Lancashire Sheet XI [link shared under the terms of the NLS Creative Commons licence CC-BY].
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