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<< Text Pages >> Prittlewell Spring - Holy Well or Sacred Spring in England in Essex

Submitted by DavidCWoods on Monday, 20 June 2005  Page Views: 6845

Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Prittlewell Spring
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 1.5 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Essex Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Southend  Nearest Village: Prittlewell
Map Ref: TQ875875
Latitude: 51.555218N  Longitude: 0.703256E
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
Destroyed Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data 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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Holy Well or Sacred Spring in Essex. A Clunaic Priory was established nearby in about 1110, colonised from that at Lewes.

I visited in March 2005 and the area around the site is now known as Priory Park. A small manor house, now opened as a museum, occupies the Priory site. They have some old maps and one marks the site of the spring – it is shown as being at one end of the monastic fishing ponds, situated over Prittle Brook from the buildings. The two ponds have now become one, albeit with a large island, presumably formed from part of the old causeway. One of the staff in the museum had told me that the spring was now within the northern pond, and I could certainly see no sign of it, although a large mound occupies the point shown on the map.

The edge of the pond certainly had the remains of some masonary at the edge nearest to the mound, and it may be that the spring is culverted into the pond and that the entry point is concealed under the weeds.

Certainly, a small stream emerges from a pipe in the hillside a few yards further north and flows towards the old Priory.

While watching Tony Robinson's Time Team Special about the "Prittlewell Prince" I was struck by the fact the both here and at Taplow, another of the three sites mentioned, a spring is found in fairly close proximity to the burial site (see also Bapsey Pond). I am not aware of anything at the third site, Sutton Hoo.
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TQ8787 : The Old Crowstone, in Priory Park, Victoria Avenue by Paul Jones
by Paul Jones
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TQ8787 : Saint John Fisher Church by Jamie Collins
by Jamie Collins
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TQ8787 : Roundabout at Cuckoo Corner by Jamie Collins
by Jamie Collins
©2007(licence)
TQ8787 : Sound Check in Priory Park by Glyn Baker
by Glyn Baker
©2011(licence)
TQ8787 : Priory Park bandstand by Roger W Haworth
by Roger W Haworth
©2010(licence)

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Re: Prittlewell Spring by Anonymous on Monday, 04 July 2005
A guy also apparently saw a devil around the area surronding the pond
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Re: Prittlewell Spring by Anonymous on Monday, 04 July 2005
I live near there. The burial site is near the road going around the park, and was for an old Anglican King.
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