<< Text Pages >> Chapel Well, Smardale - Holy Well or Sacred Spring in England in Cumbria
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Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Chapel Well, Smardale Alternative Name: Smardale Chapel Holy WellCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 2.274 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Cumbria Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Kirkby Stephen Nearest Village: Crosby Garrett / Smardale
Map Ref: NY2350008550
Latitude: 54.466534N Longitude: 3.181794W
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
Information about this well is recorded as Cumbria Historic Environment Record HER 1985, and the location of the well shown on the Historic England Map Search, alongside the now ruined Smardale Chapel.
The HER description reads: "Site of chapel. Chapel well still remains. See also SMR 3935, Smardale Deserted Medieval Village. The chapel site is no longer obvious; some stones piled around the base of a tree at the bottom of the field may have come from it. Further up the field there are traces of lynchets(ploughing ridges) in reasonable condition. In the field below, nearest the stream, are traces of what is probably Chapel Well, a natural spring."
The location of the well is shown on the National Library of Scotland 25 inch OS map of 1898 - see Westmorland XXIII.13 [link shared under their Creative Commons licence CC-BY], but it is not possible to see the well on Google Earth images (it ngr positions it to the western side of Scandal Beck).
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