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<< Our Photo Pages >> Chagford Druid's Well - Holy Well or Sacred Spring in England in Devon

Submitted by cazzyjane on Wednesday, 09 May 2012  Page Views: 9893

Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Chagford Druid's Well Alternative Name: Druid's Well (Chagford)
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 0.765 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Devon Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Chagford
Map Ref: SX71658625
Latitude: 50.661737N  Longitude: 3.817336W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
 4 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 3 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
 5 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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TwinFlamesKiss visited on 2nd Jun 2020 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 Access: 5 We used to live a few hundred yards from the well. It juts out into the road, and has been knocked over by drivers and reconstructed many times, but still there to see and enjoy.

Anne T visited on 11th May 2019 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 5 Druid's Well, near Chagford: Our first stop of the day, with bright sunshine and deep shadows. As we approached the well, this was our first of several encounters with a very friendly Granny looking after granddaughter on skittish, but beautiful, horse. Granny was following both round in a car, making sure horse and rider were OK on these narrow lanes. We passed them several times, and met Gran again later in the day outside her farm, when we were driving towards the burial chamber, when we needed to get past a large tractor and trailer going down the narrow, and very potholed lanes. This well is just outside a property called Wellpark. At first it looks like a grass covered mound, but looking closer there is a well chamber, a large capstone and an exit water channel. On looking at the Pastscape entry, they mention another well recorded on the OS maps, only 9m away, built of an iron post and slate structure, now infilled. We didn't see this, although there was plenty of farm machinery and piles of stones and grit at the sides of the road.

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Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3 Ambience: 3.5 Access: 5

Chagford Druid's Well
Chagford Druid's Well submitted by cazzyjane : Druid's Well, Chagford. Looks like a tiny quoit but has lots of clear water running from it. (Vote or comment on this photo)
This is an odd site whose name is probably Victorian rather than ancient. The spring is enclosed in an unusual 'mini dolmen' structure.

The area is close to Middlecott a Domesday village. The well is found beside the road in Chagford.

Update May 2019: This well is recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 445558 which queries whether or not the well could be dated to the Medieval period. They describe the structure as being "not built into the hedge, but freestanding ... it consists of a stone lined trough about 1.0m by 1.4m and is 1.1m high".

To avoid any confusion, Pastscape notes: "the OS published well 9m. to the northwest is a collapsed iron post and slate structure, now defunct and infilled".
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Chagford Druid's Well
Chagford Druid's Well submitted by cazzyjane : Druid's Well, In a rather vunerable position at the side of the road. This little well is still standing, despite Terry Faull saying in his book 'Secrets of the Hidden Source' that it was in danger of collapse after being hit by a vehicle. (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

Chagford Druid's Well
Chagford Druid's Well submitted by Anne T : Close up of the well structure from a few metres to its south western side. There was a small amount of water within the well chamber, although hidden by ferns; most of the water seeped up from the ground between the well structure and the dry stone wall. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Chagford Druid's Well
Chagford Druid's Well submitted by Anne T : The well, looking remarkably similar to the Meacombe Burial Chamber, which we saw later in the day. This photo shows the well's location, very close to the side of this minor road. At first, I thought this structure was just a pile of grass covered stones by the roadside, until we got closer and the huge capstone came into view. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Chagford Druid's Well
Chagford Druid's Well submitted by cazzyjane : Druid's Well, Middlecott, near Chagford. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Chagford Druid's Well
Chagford Druid's Well submitted by Antonine : Not sure what he’s trying to do in this photo - this is ‘Mr B’, my travelling companion/photographer - 2015

Chagford Druid's Well
Chagford Druid's Well submitted by Anne T : The well structure, showing the large capstone, and how it is similar in shape/style to the Meacombe Burial Chamber.

Chagford Druid's Well
Chagford Druid's Well submitted by Anne T : This photo attempts to show the stones lining the channel running from the well, and how the water flows next to it, through a hole in the dry stone wall to the east/south east of the well. The ground all around the well was boggy, although not as much water as in cazzyjane's visit in 2012!

Chagford Druid's Well
Chagford Druid's Well submitted by Anne T : Another photo of the well, showing its proximity to a property called Wellpark. Also trying to show the water still flows from the well along a channel through a hole in the dry stone wall to its east/south east. The reeds to the centre/left of the photo show how boggy the ground is at this side of the well.

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Re: Chagford Druid's Well by Anonymous on Tuesday, 29 May 2012
There are lots of roadside wells in the area of Chagford. Many are within a stone built recess, which in some cases have stone shelves fitted at the back, and sometimes evidence of a former door closing the front. They are known as butterwells, and until recently were used to keep a farm's butter cool in all weathers. It's an old practice - some time ago an block of oak was found in an Irish bog, and found to be a box and lid containing 2000 year old butter, left in a cool place to keep (for a very long time!).

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Re: Druid's Well by coldrum on Monday, 10 August 2009
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