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<< Our Photo Pages >> Our Lady of Nance - Holy Well or Sacred Spring in England in Cornwall

Submitted by Thorgrim on Friday, 11 June 2004  Page Views: 10785

Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Our Lady of Nance
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 0.789 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Cornwall Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Newquay  Nearest Village: Colan
Map Ref: SW870604  Landranger Map Number: 200
Latitude: 50.404776N  Longitude: 4.998839W
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
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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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Our Lady of Nance
Our Lady of Nance submitted by theendlessbreeze : Grid Ref: SW870604 Location: Near Mountjoy, Cornwall As in the case of many holy wells, this one was difficult to find! From Newquay take the A392 to St Columb Road, past Quintrell Downs and then take the turning to the left just before Mountjoy to Lady Nance. Follow this road and take the first turning to the right down a lane. Here you will find a collection of cottages. The well is lo... (Vote or comment on this photo)
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Our Lady of Nance submitted by lucasn : Lady Nance Well in Colan parish (Vote or comment on this photo)

Our Lady of Nance
Our Lady of Nance submitted by lucasn : Lady Nance Well (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Our Lady of Nance submitted by lucasn : Close up of Lady Nance Well (Vote or comment on this photo)

Our Lady of Nance
Our Lady of Nance submitted by cazzyjane : Holy Well of our Lady of Nance. Nance meaning valley. Situated on some waste ground next to a group of cottages, rather overgrown but easy to find. (3 comments - Vote or comment on this photo)

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SW8660 : Lane to Colan by Derek Harper
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SW8760 : Gate near Lady Nance by Derek Harper
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SW8760 : Fence and path near Lady Nance by Derek Harper
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SW8760 : Fire-damaged house, Mountjoy by Derek Harper
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Lady Nance Well, Mountjoy by lucasn on Tuesday, 05 November 2019
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Re: Our Lady of Nance by Anonymous on Tuesday, 14 June 2005
i live in one of the cottages by the well and know that it supposedly has healing powers for the eyes!
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    Re: Our Lady of Nance by Anonymous on Friday, 12 August 2011
    my uncle owned the two cottages on the left hand side at the bottom of the lane 1970,he worked at watergate bay hotel,he used to pump water from the stream to a header tank that used to supply the cottages, the well was up the lane on left hand side,i still have documents from when my uncle purchased the property,if any one would like them please contacted me,wrightpa@hotmail.co.uk
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Re: Our Lady of Nance by Anonymous on Wednesday, 11 August 2004
Does anybody have any information regarding this site, i am interested to know the history and background of the well. As i understand it local worshippers from nearby colan church would travel here on palm sunday and drop a cross into the well. If it sank they would die in the following 12 months but if it floated they would be o.k.
This however is the only information i have found as of yet, does anyone out there know anymore?? many thanks
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    Re: Our Lady of Nance by Thorgrim on Wednesday, 11 August 2004
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    Quoting from Cheryl Straffon's excellent book "Fentynyow Kernow" it seems that "Nothing is known about St Colonus, but "nance" means valley and so the well is really the well of the Lady/Goddess of the Valley. The well was famous for the cure of sore eyes and foretelling the future, but this was dependent on holding a straw cross with one hand and giving an offering to the priest with the other!" Cheryl's book is a mine of information on Cornish wells and is available from Meyn Mamvro.
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Re: Our Lady of Nance by theendlessbreeze on Monday, 14 June 2004
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Condition: 3
Ambience: 4
Access: 3
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Re: Our Lady of Nance by theendlessbreeze on Wednesday, 09 June 2004
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Does anyone have any information on the location of this well? It does exist as I asked someone directions but I failed to find it. It is somewhere between Colon and Mountjoy, on a public footpath though some fields. I will go back some time in the future to find it.
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    Re: Our Lady of Nance by Thorgrim on Wednesday, 09 June 2004
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    I understand that it is by a stream side near some cottages. Map ref SW870604 should pin point it for you. It is up a lane which leaves the Colan road after a quarter of a mile from Mountjoy.
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    Re: Our Lady of Nance by Anonymous on Tuesday, 07 February 2006
    the well is siuated in Ladynance ,a small hamlet near colan,
    the well is hidden by shrubberry by still easy to locate .
    i was a evacuee in 1940 there and the well was only source of water
    Even then visitors came for samples being 'holy water' I must be a saint in that case There were eels living in it and we were told thet cleansed the water !
    No electricity,no running water,no gas,no traffic but the people managed I piad a vist a few years ago and it was like a time warp
    hope you read this and it helps
    bob Cooper
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      Re: Our Lady of Nance by Anonymous on Monday, 08 May 2023
      Can anyone tell me the history of Lady Nance and the well as I would like to write a book about it. There were three cottages there in the first place although when I visited years later, it looked nothing like how it first appeared. An old lady, the daughter of an admiral owned them and lived in the right had side one. My father bought the other two in the late 60''s for a song. I think the second one he got for £300. I remember there ws a man who lived in an old caravan just opposite the ancient well.

      Memories have suddenly been flooding into my head and I can find hardly any history of it. It is a big part of history though and should be preserved.

      I would be grateful for any information.
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