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Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: The Running Well Alternative Name: Our Lady's Well (Runwell)Country: England County: Essex Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Southend Nearest Village: Runwell
Map Ref: TQ7510096562
Latitude: 51.640601N Longitude: 0.529102E
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 |
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Holy Well or Sacred Spring in Essex
The village was noted as Runewell c.940 and Runewella in the Domesday Book, the name derives from the Old English for “a secret, a mystery, a council” and well.
I visited with a friend in April 2006, taking the footpath to the east of the Running Well Equestrian Centre. The footpath is muddy, obviously much used by horses and runs down the east side of the Centre. After a while, the path forks – we took the right hand, along the edge of the paddocks. Eventually the path comes to the end of the wooded section and follows the edge of a field. After about a hundred yards the path (and the field boundary) we turned to the right. About half way along this field edge my friend found a gap in the hedge between the field and the paddock. We crossed a ditch and scrambled up the opposite bank, emerging on a path used by the Riding School. Turning left we carried on to the south west corner of the paddock and here, on the left was a dell with a pool at the bottom.
This well is also featured on The Northern Antiquarian (TNA) - see their entry for Our Lady’s Well, Runwell, Essex, which gives directions for finding this site together with a photograph, a brief archaeology & history and some fascinating local folklore.
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