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Submitted by HOLYWELL on Sunday, 16 May 2010 Page Views: 13582
Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Robin Hood's Well ( Yorkshire)Country: England County: Yorkshire (North) Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Map Ref: SE2767868295 Landranger Map Number: 99
Latitude: 54.109795N Longitude: 1.578145W
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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 |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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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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Anne T visited on 5th Sep 2015 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 3 Access: 3 Robin Hood's Well at Fountain's Abbey, North Yorkshire: After our visit to Ripon Cathedral to see the Anglo Saxon/Pre-Norman stones, we took our small grand-daughter over to Fountains Abbey to enjoy the sunshine in a beautiful location. Walking past the Abbey to Studley Royal Water Gardens, we retraced our steps on the opposite side of the River Skell to the Abbey ruins. I'd spotted this structure on the walk down and said "that looks like a well". When we went past it on the return leg of our walk, it was indeed a well, although dry. It wasn't until I got back and checked on the Portal that I found out it was "Robin Hood's Well."
The stones on the left hand side, as you face the well, look as if they are being undermined by the wear on the track that leads up past it to the woods, but comparing the photographs submitted in 2010, it hasn't changed much.
Peering inside the well, there is a stone channel on the left hand side at the top/back of the well which routes water (if there is any) into the basin at the bottom.
Then whistled out so many of his good ban dogs; but Little John let his arrows fly among them that "the Friar that had kept Fountain-dale seven long years and more" was brought to his sense in a trice. Presently we shall be seduced to halt at a shady knoll; and while reclining by the crystal well that still bears the outlaw's name, may pleasurably recall the rude romaunt that lingers in each youthful mind. Tradition points to a large bow and arrow, graven in the north east angle of the Lady Chapel, as a record of this dire affray. They bear no affinity to those symbols used by masons, but have, I fancy, induced the report mentioned by Ritson, that Robin's bow and arrows were preserved at Fountains Abbey.
A delightful site which has improved in the last few years and now has the water running from it.
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