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<< Our Photo Pages >> St Agnes Well, Longham - Holy Well or Sacred Spring in England in Norfolk

Submitted by hamstermoon on Sunday, 13 February 2011  Page Views: 6638

Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: St Agnes Well, Longham
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 2.705 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Norfolk Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Gressenhall  Nearest Village: East Dereham
Map Ref: TF94831586
Latitude: 52.705333N  Longitude: 0.882335E
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
3 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
0No data.
4 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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St Agnes Well, Longham
St Agnes Well, Longham submitted by hamstermoon : Behind the two springs, slightly up the hill, is a pool which, if you stand and watch it in calm weather, very obviously shows itself as being a Blow Well. Large bubbles of (presumably) carbon dioxide make their way up from small depressions in the pool floor and break at the water surface. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Holy Well in Norfolk. Said to be a holy well which pilgrims visited on their way to Walsingham. The well is on private land in just north of Spring Farm in Longham. Access prohibited, 2021.

The Norfolk Heritage Explorer says that it "formerly had [a] brick well head, now replaced by clay bank and pond".

When we visited we found the remains of an iron gate covering a concrete well head. This did have bricks so it could have been the original one reused. Some of the water from this was being piped off in a rather Heath Robinson manner but another spring-point, directly below the concrete construction, was also pouring clear water directly out of the chalky ground. This created a pool which ran off into a streamlet, which then fed into the small brook, flowing past which is the parish boundary between Gressenhall and Longham.

Behind the well head is a body of water which although has been artificially expanded is in fact is a 'blow well'. This has lots of small springs coming up into its base and each lets off some big bubbles of carbon dioxide every so often. From reading around on the subject this pool, which seems to be part of a fairly large spring field including the spring with the well head and the one below it, could actually be the real St Agnes Well.
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St Agnes Well, Longham
St Agnes Well, Longham submitted by hamstermoon : A picture showing the spring field and one of the springs surrounded by a brick and concrete well-head (the metal sheets over it are presumably to keep the water clean!). The Heath Robinson type set-up (including an old pig bucket!) effectively siphons off some of the water to move it elsewhere although we were not sure where it went. (Vote or comment on this photo)

St Agnes Well, Longham
St Agnes Well, Longham submitted by rocket : Former access to site, now prohibited (Vote or comment on this photo)

St Agnes Well, Longham
St Agnes Well, Longham submitted by hamstermoon : Beside the well head there is another spring rising in a pool. The water from the second spring flows out by a small channel into a nearby stream. (Vote or comment on this photo)

St Agnes Well, Longham
St Agnes Well, Longham submitted by hamstermoon : Inside the well head you can see the chalky spring bed where the water rises. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Re: St Agnes Well, Longham by rocket on Tuesday, 11 May 2021
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There is no longer access to this site - the drive is now marked private with no public right of way
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Re: St Agnes Well, Longham by Anonymous on Thursday, 27 September 2012
Just a thought: you can see Holly Farm on the map. [So, Holy Farm - not the tree necessarily, see below.] But are you aware that the tiny square above the 'y' of Holly is HOLLYACRE LODGE? Holy Acre. Almost certainly pre-Christian. I note that you seem far from certain that the well at Spring Farm is 'the one'. May I suggest that a stronger candidate is whatever well might be at Hollyacre. Hollyacre cannot be found on the old O.S. maps, or on Google, but try this link:

http://www.mouseprice.com/property-information/ref-17354578/Holly-Acre-Lodge-Wendling-Road
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