<< Our Photo Pages >> Jennet's Well/Spring - Holy Well or Sacred Spring in England in Yorkshire (West)
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Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Jennet's Well/Spring Alternative Name: Jen's Well, Jannet's Well, Fairy Well; St Jennet's Well; Jennet WellCountry: England County: Yorkshire (West) Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Keighley Nearest Village: Braithwaite
Map Ref: SE04614180
Latitude: 53.872386N Longitude: 1.931372W
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 |
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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 |
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Holy Well in Yorkshire (West). Jennet's Well/Spring at Keighley, W.Yorks. SE 0461 4180. This particular well is rather an odd one to say the least. It stands at the side of a private house, nearly opposite the small Calversyke reservoir at Black Hill to the W of Keighley, at the western end of Shann Lane.
According to the legend, a St Jennet dwelt here back in Saxon times. She was apparently, later, made tutelary saint of a church in Keighley, but no record of a St Jennet exists today - so she/he is one of those obscure saints lost in the mists of time. So it would seem the well is a christianized spring. The well has also been associated with fairies in times gone by.
The spring flows into a square basin-like structure and then down along a stone gulley; it then goes underground and probably runs on into the reservoir nearby. It obviously pre-dates the house by many hundreds of years, but may have been used as a source of water by the occupants and others close-by. If you are going to look at the well or take photos there [please respect the privacy of the occupants of the house]. There are two other holy wells in this area: True Well and Goff Well.
The Northern Antiquarian (TNA)>/b> also feature a page for this site - see their entry for Jennet’s Well, Keighley, West Yorkshire which gives us directions for finding the well together with a photograph, a brief archaeology & history and local folklore. The Journal of Antiquities also includes a page for Jennet’s Well, Calversyke, Keighley, West Yorkshire, which includes photographs, background information, a description of the well and the use of its waters, and a list of reference sources for more information.
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