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Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: St Helen's Well (Askam and Ireleth) Alternative Name: Chapel Meadow Holy Well (Askam-in-Furness)Country: England
NOTE: This site is 2.221 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Cumbria Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Dalton-in-Furness / Askam-in-Furness
Map Ref: SD2161075640
Latitude: 54.170543N Longitude: 3.202292W
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
Typing in the grid reference for this well into the Historic England Map Search brings up a site called 'holy well' (unnamed) displayed on current mapping. Also recorded in the Cumbria Historic Environment Record as HER number 2194, their description of this well reads: "A 'holy well' is situated in a field called 'Farkillin'. The well is covered and formerly it flowed through an iron trough 3ft long, 13ins wide and 8.5ins thick, but the trough has subsequently been moved ca 65m SSE of the well".
The well is mentioned briefly in the Old Cumbria Gazetteer - see their entry for Holy Well (Askam and Ireleth), but there are no further details given.
There is no mention of the well in the Heritage Gateway, nor is it recorded in McIntyre's 1944 publication "The Holy Wells of Cumberland".
Does anyone know any information about this well, and how it came to have associations with St Helen? Do you know if its waters were used for healing and/or restorative purposes?
The current location of the well can clearly be seen on Google Earth images, as a circular patch of bare earth, with some sort of structure within. Have you visited this site? Do you have any photographs you can add?
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