<< Our Photo Pages >> Lady Well (Whixall) - Holy Well or Sacred Spring in England in Shropshire
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Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Lady Well (Whixall)Country: England County: Shropshire Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Wem Nearest Village: Whixall
Map Ref: SJ496346
Latitude: 52.906456N Longitude: 2.750812W
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 |
0 | No data. |
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 |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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Holy Well or Sacred Spring in Shropshire
Lady Well appears as a place name on the Ordnance Survey but other than that nothing is known about it. It survives as a brick culvert in the ditch next to the main road almost opposite Ladywell Farm. I was told that there used to be a well in the field at the edge of which the culvert can be found, but that nothing was visible now, and certainly the field is covered with long-overgrown rubble making locating any feature at surface level completely impossible.
I list this as 'access level 5' because you can indeed drive to it; but you could interpret it differently because in fact you have to crawl into the hedge to find it!
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