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

Submitted by KiwiBetsy on Monday, 25 September 2006  Page Views: 5553

Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Fice's Well
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 0.738 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Devon Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Princetown
Map Ref: SX5773075865
Latitude: 50.565167N  Longitude: 4.010178W
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.
4 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.
3 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
4

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Fice's Well
Fice's Well submitted by KiwiBetsy : The well stands surrounded by a low stone wall which was built by convicts (it’s only a very short distance to the prison) in the 19th century. We found Fice’s Well on a very murky Dartmoor day and were probably lucky not to suffer the same fate as John Fitz and his wife. One day they were riding on the moor when the piskies conjured up a thick, impenetrable mist which resulted in the couple... (Vote or comment on this photo)
Holy Well or Sacred Spring in Devon

From Tavistock head east on the B3357. When the road forks to the right (to Princetown) go straight ahead. Almost immediately after this intersection, there is a wide gateway on the left with room to pull off the road, and a public footpath sign. Park and take the footpath north across three fields. The well lies to the east of the footpath at the end of the third (possibly the beginning of the fourth) field. There is a signpost beside the footpath pointing to the well.


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Fice's Well
Fice's Well submitted by cazzyjane : Fice's Well, a peaceful site on the moor enclosed by it's own protective wall. All you can hear is the slow dripping of the water into the well and the distant sound of the sheep. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Fice's Well
Fice's Well submitted by cazzyjane : Fice's Well. One of three wells in Devon built by the Fitz family. The others being Fice's Well at Tavistock and Fitz's well at Okehampton. It has 'IF 1568' carved above the entrance. The well is signposted from the road near the junction to Princetown, but I searched high and low for it - not realising it was hidden by a circular surrounding wall built by convicts in the 19th century. (2 comments - Vote or comment on this photo)

Fice's Well
Fice's Well submitted by AngieLake : Fice's Well from 'Dartmoor Engraved' by Todd Gray, 2001. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Fice's Well
Fice's Well submitted by KiwiBetsy : A low stone circular wall surrounds the well. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Re: Fice's Well and nearby modern stone by AngieLake on Wednesday, 03 May 2023
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I am not sure if this link will work, but I've just read an interesting post by Kate Simon on Dartmoor 365 on Facebook. (All the posts on that site are linked to the Dartmoor 365 grid letters and numbers unique to the book.) This is about the Touchstone, erected on old Dartmoor Prison farm land, and on the footpath to Fice's Well, and it is in line with Winter Solstice sunrise over the prison, according to comments here:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/296555273885240/?multi_permalinks=2176251189248963%2C2176222465918502%2C2176212982586117%2C2176190032588412%2C2176185249255557¬if_id=1683099792164609¬if_t=group_activity&ref=notif
If that didn't work...? :
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=795397305440723&set=p.795397305440723&type=3
A lovely photo there.
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