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Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Holywell (Ospringe)Country: England
NOTE: This site is 1.271 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Kent Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Faversham
Map Ref: TR002608
Latitude: 51.311087N Longitude: 0.871130E
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 |
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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 |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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Holy Well or Sacred Spring in Kent
The name, Ospringe, according to placename expert Glover (1976) suggests that an ancient venerated spring existed here, having derived from ‘God's Spring.’ It is worth also considering the presence of a Woe Water hereabouts, and furthermore it is noteworthy that a Well Lane lies within the Parish.
Despite the circumstantial evidence, Mr. Percival of the Favisham Society, did not know of any holy well existing in this area. Excavation of the site of St. Mary's Hospital did reveal the top of a stone well shaft in 1977. This was not excavated in itself, and so we cannot say for sure whether this is the said Holy Well. Sadly, the site was lost in the construction of a housing estate.
The origin may have arisen from a note in Whittaker (1908): “There are springs up the valley south of Ospringe, one just east of the churchyard and the other close by, near the vicarage: these ought to be Holy Wells.”
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![TR0060 : Ospringe houses [1] by Michael Dibb](https://s1.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/07/05/66/7056677_7f4c8b76_120x120.jpg)
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