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Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Salt Well (Grange)Country: England
NOTE: This site is 5.406 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Cumbria Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Keswick Nearest Village: Grange
Map Ref: NY25161848
Latitude: 54.556003N Longitude: 3.158712W
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 |
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I found reference to this holy well, near Manesty, Grange, on Pastscape, which tells us this was listed as a holy well by W.T. McIntire in the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian Society journal of 1944.
Also shown on the modern OS map, it is also recorded as the Salt Spring, Borrowdale by the Old Cumbria Gazetteer, which also has photographs of the well from 2009.
The Gazetter includes an entry from a Guide Book of 1787 by James Clark (A Survey of the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire), which tells us: "Below this house (Manesty) is Borrowdale-well, a medical water of excellent quality, and was formerly much frequented; it is a never failing cure for cutaneous eruptions in man or beast, by washing only … The water tastes very like sea water, is very clear and pellucid; but a kind of moss seems to arise with it, and remain upon the top like a scum."
Located just off the Cumbria Way, we set off to find this salt spring, which was documented as having a low surrounding stone wall, just as dusk was rapidly falling. We got to within about 6m of the location of the well, using our GPS, but were unable to find the well structure.
The well is also documented in a paper entitled "A Salt Spring in Borrowdale" by Charlotte Kipling, Freshwater Biological Association (1961), available through the Archaological Data Service. There used to be a number of wells in this area. The monks from Furness Abbey are documented as having made salt from the salty waters of this well in medieval times, "a spring afterwards used by the German miners … for medicinal purposes".
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