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Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Lady Well (Ashdon) Alternative Name: Ladies WellCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 4.056 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Essex Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Saffron Walden Nearest Village: Ashdon
Map Ref: TL586424
Latitude: 52.057285N Longitude: 0.311877E
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3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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3 | Ordinary |
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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 |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
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Holy Well or Sacred Spring in Essex.
The village has an interesting, but little known site, which is called the Lady or Ladies Well. This is a now a rather boggy and insignificant pool surrounded by some dead elms.
It lays along an old carthorse track, now simply a footpath in field near The Rectory. This is reached by taking the road between the two white houses and up the hill. The footpath is signed off this road.
Local traditions suggests that the name of the well derives from the fact that it was haunted by the ghost of a wealthy lady. She is said to have drowned after being thrown from her carriage whilst passing along the track on night. Yet, it would appear to a secularisation of an obvious holy well. Perhaps the ghost is more a folk memory of this christian dedication or even the pagan deity which preceded it?
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