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<< Text Pages >> Lady Well (Belper) - Holy Well or Sacred Spring in England in Derbyshire

Submitted by HOLYWELL on Sunday, 27 February 2011  Page Views: 5990

Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Lady Well (Belper)
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 4.2 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Derbyshire Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Belper
Map Ref: SK353472
Latitude: 53.020938N  Longitude: 1.475209W
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
1 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
3 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.
3 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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Holy Well or Sacred Spring in Derbyshire

The Lady Well was sadly enclosed within an underground reservoir in the late 1800s, was visited by children, who took oatmeal and sugar, mixed in a mug or porringer with its waters. Hope (1883) notes:
“Was the Lady Well famous in days gone by for saintly and medicinal properties? If so its fame still lingers, unconsciously, perhaps, in the minds of the people, for they still make journeys of a mile or two, carrying with them a glass or a mug, to drink its waters. From Duffield, and other places round about, people used to come, years ago, in parties to the Lady Well, bringing not only vessels from which to drink the water, but ‘noggins’ in which to carry back a supply for home drinking. Afflicted persons have been seen bathing.”

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Nearby Images from Geograph Britain and Ireland:
SK3547 : Mill Lane, Belper by Peter Barr
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SK3547 : Coppice Brook by Ian Calderwood
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SK3547 : Manor Farmhouse (The Flats), New Breck Road, Belper by Alan Murray-Rust
by Alan Murray-Rust
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SK3547 : Steeply sloping football pitch by Graham Hogg
by Graham Hogg
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SK3547 : Belper - Parkside Nos 23 to 33 by Dave Bevis
by Dave Bevis
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