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<< Our Photo Pages >> St Andrew's Well (Stogursey) - Holy Well or Sacred Spring in England in Somerset

Submitted by HOLYWELL on Wednesday, 23 August 2006  Page Views: 7879

Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: St Andrew's Well (Stogursey)
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 2.9 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Somerset Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Taunton  Nearest Village: Stogursey
Map Ref: ST20224282
Latitude: 51.179025N  Longitude: 3.142721W
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
 5 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 4 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.
 5 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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St Andrew's Well (Stogursey)
St Andrew's Well (Stogursey) submitted by HOLYWELL : St Andrew's Well Stogursey (Vote or comment on this photo)
Holy Well in Somerset. Down this side lane one is greeted with the most impressive structure surrounding a Holy Well in Somerset. One enters a large archway into a forecourt where two small 'brick huts' are apparent (now with windows) within which apparently the waters arise and perhaps custodians sat.

The water emerges beneath these 'huts' a series of three pipes. Two to the left and one to the right. There water gushes out at some force filling stone throughs and then draining away. The village itself has a delightful church with a pleisosaur!
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St Andrew's Well (Stogursey)
St Andrew's Well (Stogursey) submitted by hamstermoon : A view inside the stone tank on the left hand side. Every so often large bubbles would come up to the surface. (Vote or comment on this photo)

St Andrew's Well (Stogursey)
St Andrew's Well (Stogursey) submitted by hamstermoon : The two pipes on the right hand side. Looking at the photos posted by Holywell they seem to be running a little faster than when the others were taken ... (Vote or comment on this photo)

St Andrew's Well (Stogursey)
St Andrew's Well (Stogursey) submitted by hamstermoon : The pipe from the left hand tank flowing. You can see from the colouration there is iron dissolved in the water and this is a chalybeate spring. (Vote or comment on this photo)

St Andrew's Well (Stogursey)
St Andrew's Well (Stogursey) submitted by hamstermoon : A sign on the wall of the pathway running down to the well. (Vote or comment on this photo)

St Andrew's Well (Stogursey)
St Andrew's Well (Stogursey) submitted by HOLYWELL : St Andrew's Well Stogursey

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Re: St Andrew's Well (Stogursey) by Anonymous on Friday, 13 April 2018
Being a resident of Stogursey (notice no R in the middle - corrected Ed.), we always drank from the well, then we we're told in the 70's not to drink as it's unfit for human consumption. Personally i love the taste!!!
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Re: St Andrew's Well (Storgursey) by Anonymous on Tuesday, 12 July 2011
We drive out from Bridgwater every ten days or so to fill bottles and have been using this well for all of our drinking water for eight years.
Certainly no ill effects..........Yet!!
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Re: St Andrew's Well (Storgursey) by hamstermoon on Sunday, 22 February 2009
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My partner and I visited in 2008 and found this running enthusiastically, possibly due to the recent wet summers. As we were standing about admiring the water flow, and wondering if something like this was still safe to drink, one of the locals came with bottles and filled them up. She said they were having a children's party and had just run out of water to dilute the squash and had come to get some more. Heartened by this we also had a glassful. You can certainly taste the chalybeate although its not as strongly 'diluted rusty nails' as the Red Well at Glastonbury.
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