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Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: St. Botolph's Well (Hadstock)Country: England
NOTE: This site is 4.014 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Essex Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Saffron Walden Nearest Village: Hadstock
Map Ref: TL55864478
Latitude: 52.079443N Longitude: 0.273032E
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willowman1 visited on 14th Aug 2017 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 Access: 4
Hadstock is a placed deeply steeped in history. The church is dedicated to St. Botolph, an East Anglian abbot of the seventh century. St. Botolph’s Church is situated up a small hill from the centre of the village, and excavations there over the years have revealed a large empty Saxon grave and signs of burning on the walls.
The well, also dedicated to St. Botolph, is sited just over the chuchyard wall to the south of the church – according to the guidebook, water from it was reputed to cure scrofula.
This well is also recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 374149, which quotes from a notice in the porch in the church: "St. Botolph's Well is in the churchyard under the old pump. It is one of the most ancient wells in the country and was until 1930 the main water supply of the entire village, and it never ran dry."
The Northern Antiquarian (TNA) also features a page for this holy well - see their entry for St. Botolph’s Well, Hadstock, Essex, which gives directions for finding this well, together with a photograph, descriptions from 19th, 20th and 21st century reference material plus local folklore. TNA curiously adds: "it was commonly believed that the spring water drains from the graveyard above it: and hence it has earned the name ‘bone gravy’. Despite all these traditions, this did not deter the locals, who vouched for its goodness. Even when piped water was brought to the village in the 1930s, many locals could not see the point as the well water was good enough."
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