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Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Lady's Well (Balmaclellan)Country: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 1.259 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Dumfries and Galloway Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: New Galloway Nearest Village: Balmaclellan
Map Ref: NX6435678263
Latitude: 55.080221N Longitude: 4.126363W
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 Dumfries and Galloway
This holy well is not recorded on Canmore, but is described by the Can You Dig It: Lost Wells of Galloway (LWoG) project, who tell us that "The site of Lady's Well sits to the south of Lady's Well Hill. It appears on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey 6-inch map of 1853 but does not appear on mapping again after this, although it appears to have given its name to the adjacent hill." [Note: just to the west of the location of this well is a minor street/road called Lady Well Hill].
The LWoG researcher, Samantha Oakley adds: "The Ordnance Survey name book ... describes it as 'the track of a spring well. W[?] before it was closed up with [w?] and clay it was much prized its excellency of water. [It] is on the farm of Holme".
Samantha tells us: "It features on the Places of Worship in Scotland website (scottishchurches.org.uk) which records: 'This is the site of a holy well, which is alongside an ancient trackway. There is still a fresh water spring on the site. Researched by A. Penman, compiled by J. Dowling, 28th July 2003'."
If anyone has visited this well and have photographs or more information about it, particularly about any properties or cures the water may have offered, we'd welcome contributions to this site page.
The Lost Wells of Galloway project is a community project, "setting out to map and better understand lost wells in Galloway, considering how we relate to these historic features now and how this has changed over time".
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