<< Our Photo Pages >> Delf Well - Holy Well or Sacred Spring in Scotland in Midlothian
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Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Delf WellCountry: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 0.962 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Midlothian Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Edinburgh Nearest Village: Duddingston
Map Ref: NT282727
Latitude: 55.941961N Longitude: 3.151084W
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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 |
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3 | Ordinary |
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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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3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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The site is marked and named on the 1850s OS maps, and is still shown on contemporary OS and A-Z maps. In the 19th century the area was a drying green containing a number of wells.
The spring is now covered by a manhole, but had had some work done on it by March 2003, when the water was flowing again and some of the structure could be seen.
The name is derived from the delf, the pit dug into marshy ground, in which the water is collected.
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