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<< Text Pages >> Wanswell - Holy Well or Sacred Spring in England in Gloucestershire

Submitted by coldrum on Tuesday, 05 January 2010  Page Views: 6074

Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Wanswell
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 0.7 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Gloucestershire Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring

Map Ref: SO68980139
Latitude: 51.710379N  Longitude: 2.45035W
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
no data Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data 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
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no data 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 Gloucestershire

From Pastscape:

"Wansell, a holy well, the waters of which were formerly thought to
have curative properties. Its name may have been derived from Woden
(or Wan).

The first element in the name, first recorded as Weneswell in 1170-90
may derive from a personal name in Old Danish "Vagn", or from the Old
English "Waegn" - a wagon."

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Nearby Images from Geograph Britain and Ireland:
SO6901 : Wanswell Court by David Exworth
by David Exworth
©2006(licence)
SO6900 : Wanswell Court Farm by Philip Halling
by Philip Halling
©2012(licence)
SO6900 : Trees near Wanswell Court Farm by Philip Halling
by Philip Halling
©2012(licence)
SO6801 : Oilseed rape at Wanswell by Philip Halling
by Philip Halling
©2012(licence)
SO6800 : Ploughed field near Wanswell Court Farm by Philip Halling
by Philip Halling
©2012(licence)

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Re: Wanswell by JamieFairchild on Monday, 24 July 2023
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After spending much of my childhood at wanswell court i have had a love of the history and surrounding area. Rumers of a 'tunnel' linking Wanswell with Berkeley castle is just another one of those laughable myth's.. but there could be logic in that Berkeley and the castle having piped or culverted water from the holy well led to this tunnel theory?
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Re: Wanswell by Anonymous on Monday, 24 July 2023
Holy Well at Wanswell sits in an overgrown corner of a field under a tin shed. The structure over the holy well consists of a 3 - 4 foot tall brick wall with corrugated tin over iron trusses. The brick structure is approximately 15 x 20 feet. The roof has 2 ridges with a central valley gutter. The tin is in very poor condition and will not be serving its purpose to presumably avoid rotting vegtation and animals into the mouth of the well. Looking through some air vents the base of the water appers 8 to 10 feet lower than ground level. The water is extremely clear and the bed of the spring/ well is visible as a light coloured silt. There is a visible movement to the water but not localised to any area. The volume of water does seem greater than the outflow pipe located in a drainage channel cut along the field. Presumably the water is being pumped from inside this building to be treated and used as potable water.
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Re: Wanswell by 4clydesdale7 on Wednesday, 14 September 2011
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To those who care to visit this site there may be something of a disappointment - it is marked on the Explorer Map 167 but it is not easy to be sure/precise as to its actual location - on the map just above the 'Holywell Spring' printed in blue there is what I would describe as 'an upturned champagne cork' outlined in black - within the lower part of this (on the ground) there is a delapidated corrugated iron shed and some 10m N of that shed a very wet 'swamp' - I have seen a photograph of this area taken in the 1920s - the notes appended to the picture state that the shed was built over the 'reservoir for the Well' just prior to the 1stWW - the same shed seems to be there still - it seems something of an eyesore -

Research elsewhere reveals;-

That the Well was at one time one of the primary early sources of water for Berkeley Castle/Village about 1km to the SSW -

The 'swamp' is immediately above the Spring that fills the reservoir - I know from my personal experience of being up to my knees in it!

As far back as the 12th century the Well was known as Woden's Well but there is also some credible authority for the notion that the 'Wan' is derived from the Anglo-Saxon 'gwain' meaning meadow -

Before reaching Berkeley the waters from the spring feed the medieval fish ponds at and the moat around Wanswell Court about 0.5km S of the reservoir
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