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Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Church ConduitCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 1.926 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Norfolk Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Village: Upper Sheringham
Map Ref: TG144418
Latitude: 52.930770N Longitude: 1.188546E
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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 |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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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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It takes some imagination to view this as anything approaching a sacred site, but it’s worth mentioning for its sheer scale and attractiveness. It does sit beside the church in Upper Sheringham, and taps springs that rise just above it, so once upon a time there may have been deeper significance to the waters than we see now. Immediately north of the church of All Saints is a large water reservoir, walled with flints, at the mouth of which is a brick arch surmounted by a broken pediment: the water pours gently beneath this into a trough and out via two spouts. ‘ANNO PACIS MDCCCXIV’, reads a date-stone, rather optimistically as Napoleon still had a bit of fight left in him at that stage. The Lord of the Manor at the time was apparently responsible.
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