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Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Lady Well (Kirklington)Country: England
NOTE: This site is 1.2 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Yorkshire (North) Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Masham Nearest Village: Kirklington / Bedale / Thirsk
Map Ref: SE31628142
Latitude: 54.227524N Longitude: 1.51648W
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 |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
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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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Anne T visited on 31st May 2021 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4 Lady Well (Kirklington): our first site, in our first day out for 15 months. What a delightful location, although a shame the well house itself is crumbling and full of rubbish.
With the site of the deserted medieval village of Yarnwick in the same field, and to the north of, the well, it was a delight to be back in the countryside again
I stopped to photograph a second, now capped well, presumably the well supplying the farmhouse, at SE 31634 81303.
The well is mentioned in McCall's "Richmondshire Churches" (1901, p95): "As Burneston had Saint Lambert's fountain, mentioned so early as the Twelfth century, so Kirklington possesses its Holy Well, beside the old Mill House on the north of the village", and Harte's "English Holy Wells" (1983, p356): The spring-name Lady Well appears on the 1856 OS at SE (4,4) 316 814. It features
in Whelan & Taylor (1989: 39, with drawing). The parish church is dedicated to the Virgin".
It also features on the Yorkshire Holy Wells website.
Parking is available around the small, triangular village green, at approx. SE 31753 81293. Follow the road westwards towards Hall Farm, then take a footpath which turns to the north, and runs through the farmyard. Immediately through the farmyard, there is a metal gate which leads into a meadow; crossing over the small stream, the well house is immediately to your left hand side.
At the entrance to Hall Farm, at SE 31634 81303, there is a now capped well (shown on the HE map search, and the 1892 OS map (see Yorkshire LXXXVI.15 25 inch map as a 'W'.
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