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<< Our Photo Pages >> Physic Well (Cumnor) - Holy Well or Sacred Spring in England in Oxfordshire

Submitted by jamesrattue on Friday, 03 May 2019  Page Views: 23657

Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Physic Well (Cumnor)
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 1.5 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Oxfordshire Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Oxford  Nearest Village: Cumnor
Map Ref: SP4412604375
Latitude: 51.736354N  Longitude: 1.362401W
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
 2 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 2 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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Harmudge visited on 26th May 2019 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 4

Bird_nerd29 visited - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 3 This took a bit of a long walk, and we walked past it at first - there was a lot of surface water, so looked like it was in a pond. Once we realised and looked closer, it was easier to spot. It's in a nice wooded area, will be going back when it's drier.



Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3.5 Ambience: 4 Access: 3.5

Physic Well (Cumnor)
Physic Well (Cumnor) submitted by AnnieF : Physic well, Cumnor, improved condition Sept 2011 (Vote or comment on this photo)
Very little is known about Physic Well. The name suggests some healing property in times past, but it was already 'long disused' in 1806 (Lysons, 'Magna Britannia: Berkshire'). The well lies a mile west of Cumnor Village close to the ferry point at Bablock Hythe, now in Oxfordshire.

Visitors must take the metalled track that runs westwards from beside the small chapel on the northern edge of the village, out past Long Leys Farm and into a small wood. This is a bridleway and gets quite muddy in wet weather! The path winds through the wood for a couple of hundred yards and the well can be found just off the track on the right-hand (northern) side when walking from Cumnor. It's a tumble of rough stones surrounding a basin of cloudy turqouise water which looks as though it might possibly have some mineral content.
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Physic Well (Cumnor)
Physic Well (Cumnor) submitted by AnnieF : Physic well nr Cumnor nicely dredged and cleaned up, Sept 2011 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Physic Well (Cumnor)
Physic Well (Cumnor) submitted by jamesrattue : Physic Well, Cumnor, Berkshire (Vote or comment on this photo)

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SP4404 : Public bridleway past Long Leys Farm by Vieve Forward
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Re: Physic Well (Cumnor) by Anonymous on Monday, 25 October 2021
Whilst walking the Thames path in the 1980s, I visited the physic well. I was taken across the river by an obliging ferryman, climbed up the bridle-path, and found the well. At that time it was a rough circle of scattered stones around a cloudy, milky-looking pool. I sipped the water, then climbed up through the woods to a sunlit cornfield. Here I lay down and slept. Returning later by ferry I asked the ferryman to test the depth of the river. We were both excited to find, as I had thought, that it was surprisingly shallow where there must have been a ford for cattle and horses, but deep on either side.
As to its being a 'physic well' I suffered no cough, cold or anything else for at least two years after tasting the water. I do believe the well gives medicinal benefits.
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Re: Physic Well (Cumnor) by Anonymous on Monday, 24 July 2017
Just a small amendment. Cumnor's in Oxfordshire, not Berkshire.
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    Re: Physic Well (Cumnor) by Anne T on Monday, 24 July 2017
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    Hello, Anonymous. Well spotted. Whilst the main heading said 'Oxfordshire', the text said 'Berkshire'.

    Having checked up on boundary changes, Cumnor used to be in Berkshire until the 1974 local government boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire (hence the original reference to Berkshire from 1806).

    Great to spot these inconsistencies and get them corrected. Thank you very much!
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Re: Physic Well (Cumnor) by Runemage on Sunday, 04 January 2015
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Photo taken 1916 http://viewfinder.english-heritage.org.uk/search/detail.aspx?uid=55257
Permalink: http://jiscmediahub.ac.uk/record/display/061-oaiwwwculturegridorgukEnglishHeritage1524934 Citation: Title: Physic Well, Cumnor, Oxfordshire Collection: Culture Grid URL: http://jiscmediahub.ac.uk/record/display/061-oaiwwwculturegridorgukEnglishHeritage1524934 Mention here about halfway down the page and using the image linked to above http://www.bint-family.com/history.htm
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Re: Physic Well (Cumnor) by GRM on Saturday, 03 January 2015
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There was nothing of note found in the well, just water and masonry. I would be very interested to find out more about this site as I feel a deep connection to it (pardon the pun... I could barely see out of it!)
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Re: Physic Well (Cumnor) by Anonymous on Saturday, 03 January 2015
I take part responsibility for cleaning up this site. The well is over 5 feet deep, with a number of steps leading down from the side closest to the bridleway. Some of the masonry from the deepest parts had the same purple discolouration as the spring on the recent Stonehenge documentary, perhaps a reason for the name?
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