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Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Nicker Pits Alternative Name: Crosse well, Nicher well, Hydon HoleCountry: England County: Kent Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Canterbury Nearest Village: Westmere
Map Ref: TR000200
Latitude: 50.944738N Longitude: 0.845641E
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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Specific location of this site is not known. Nicker Pits in the Westmere marshes, unusually appears to have been missed by earlier writers. It is of great interest for it indicates the preservation of Saxon traditions of water monsters in the county, akin to the better known Nucor Hole at Lyminster, West Sussex
Brent (1860) suggests that local belief was that they were bottomless. The only other note of this site is a simply as a place name by Woodruff (1895) who notes a court appearance for the 27th January 1729 for ‘Jno Allen - For not laying a bridge between Nicher well and Hydon Hole.’ Sadly there is no map place name upon which one can extract the exact site of these pits. Furthermore, local knowledge would appear to be lacking, and whatever colourful legends associated with it, the marshes have claimed them.
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