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Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Holy Well (Winterton)Country: England
NOTE: This site is 4.3 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Lincolnshire Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Village: Winterton
Map Ref: SE944178
Latitude: 53.648197N Longitude: 0.573356W
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 |
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 |
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Holy Well or Sacred Spring in Lincolnshire
Winterton’s Holy Well was undoubtedly an ancient one, recorded as the fieldnames as 13th Century Haliuel, possibly having a saxon origin. It was a rag well, rags were left on the bushes. It was apparently recently removed in the last 15 years by drainage as still marked on recent O/S a recent exploration did not reveal anything. Its water was medicinal and petrifying water. The late Mr. Joseph Fowler, of Winterton, who was born in the year 1791, remembered people who had seen rags on the bushes near, but whether he had observed them himself is not quite certain.
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