<< Our Photo Pages >> Kings Well spring - Holy Well or Sacred Spring in England in Cumbria
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Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Kings Well springCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 0.6 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Cumbria Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Shap Nearest Village: Orton
Map Ref: NY612108 Landranger Map Number: 91
Latitude: 54.491042N Longitude: 2.600486W
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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 |
| 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 |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
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Kings Well ancient spring lies just inside a stone wall on the edge of the Coast to Coast walk. This is a very unusual spring. A stone "hut", made of very old, very large sandstone slabs, covers a trough, though it is very unlikely to have been built for animals to use. One stone has a circle cut into it. The stream runs a little further to the source, and stone walls have been built on either side. We couldn't fathom out why. There are remains of earth banks on the hillside just to the west of the spring. A possible hillfort or settlement. White Hag Hill Stone Circle is further up the fell to the west. It made me wonder if the well and the earth enbankments are co-related, and the term Kings Well, could mean this was the hillfort settlement of a celtic leader.
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