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<< Our Photo Pages >> Ladywell (Blythborough) - Holy Well or Sacred Spring in England in Suffolk

Submitted by HOLYWELL on Tuesday, 29 August 2006  Page Views: 9043

Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Ladywell (Blythborough) Alternative Name: Wishing Well (Blythborough); Queen Anne's Well; Lady's Fountain
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 6.669 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Suffolk Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
 Nearest Village: Blythborough
Map Ref: TM450762
Latitude: 52.329145N  Longitude: 1.594293E
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
4 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
1 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.
5 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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Ladywell (Blythborough)
Ladywell (Blythborough) submitted by HOLYWELL : Blythborough Lady well (Vote or comment on this photo)
Holy Well or Sacred Spring in Suffolk

Now beside a busy lane, spring lane at the south end of Henham Park not far from Blythborough church. The present now dried up fountain head of brick and stone arch was erected by the first Countess of Stradbrooke. It was probably dedicated to our lady and once had a cup attached to drink the water. In 1833 the ‘Lady’s Fountain’ poem by Agnes Strickland was written about the well.

The Northern Antiquarian (TNA) also features a page for this well - see their entry for Lady’s Well, Blythborough, Suffolk, which gives directions for finding this well together with a photograph, a brief archaeology & history and local folklore.

TNA add "The spring is said to be near the reputed to be the place of King Onna’s death (654 AD) ... A large structure is a brick and stone arch and which has two low seats inside, giving the alternative name of Tramp’s or Traveller’s Rest having also brass cups attached to the structure for anyone wishing to drink there. The age of the fabric has said to be mainly 1780, although one view was that it was erected by the first Countess of Stradbrooke in the 19th century and may be that recorded in 1833 in the poem ‘Lady’s Fountain’ poem by Agnes Strickland (the alternative name Lady coming from the Lady Strickland).  Another view is that some of the fabric is 13th century in origin.   The structure is now dry and overgrown, apparently last having water in the 1900s."
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Re: Ladywell (Blythborough) by Anonymous on Sunday, 03 August 2014
Is this the supposed Well mentioned in A Lonodon Adventure by Arthur Machen, I wonder?
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