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Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Lady Well Alternative Name: Our Lady's WellCountry: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 1.7 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Midlothian Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Edinburgh Nearest Village: Corstorphine
Map Ref: NT196726
Latitude: 55.939700N Longitude: 3.288701W
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 Midlothian.
There are a number of street names in the vicinity which refer to this well: Ladywell Road (an extension of High Street, to the west), Ladywell House, Ladywell Court, Ladywell Gardens, and Ladywell Avenue.
G. Upton Selway, in his "A Mid-Lothian Village - notes on the village and parish of Corstorphine" (published 1890) refers to this site:
There was another old well of fresh spring water not far from the Physic Well, and to the north of it, in what is now “Janefield”. It was known as Our Lady’s Well, and in former times was greatly used. A number of years ago, when other wells gave out during an extreme drought, the villagers sat round this spring all night, ladling out the water by means of saucers. The road near has been given the name of Ladywell.
The 1895 25" O.S. map (Edinburghshire sheet III.9) shows that Ladywell Road was called Lady Bank Well Road and a pump is marked nearby. The grid reference is of this pump. Morris and Morris ("Scottish Healing Wells. healing, holy, wishing and fairy wells", 1982) imply that this well has been lost within living memory.
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