Featured: Ark of Secrets - Neolithic spirit alive in the Middle Ages

Ark of Secrets - Neolithic spirit alive in the Middle Ages

Random Image


Alacahöyük

A Little History of Astro-Archaeology £4.99+p&p

A Little History of Astro-Archaeology £4.99+p&p

Who's Online

There are currently, 325 guests and 3 members online.

You are a guest. To join in, please register for free by clicking here

Sponsors

<< Our Photo Pages >> Blackfordby Spring - Holy Well or Sacred Spring in England in Leicestershire and Rutland

Submitted by enkidu41 on Tuesday, 31 August 2004  Page Views: 8979

Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Blackfordby Spring Alternative Name: St. Margaret's Well
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 4.111 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Leicestershire and Rutland Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Ashby-de-la-Zouch  Nearest Village: Blackfordby
Map Ref: SK331182
Latitude: 52.760397N  Longitude: 1.510946W
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
no data 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.
no data 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
3
Be the first person to rate this site - see the 'Contribute!' box in the right hand menu.

Internal Links:
External Links:

Blackfordby Spring
Blackfordby Spring submitted by enkidu41 : Blackfordby Spring (Vote or comment on this photo)
Sacred spring in Leicestershire and Rutland.
Blackfordby Spring is situated near the chapel in the lower part of the village which is at the bottom of the hill some 200 yards south-west of the church.

This may be the well once known as St Margaret's Well.

It delivers water copiously at over five gallons a minute and, apparently, has never been known to fail. Until piped water was introduced, it was used by practically the whole village.

Based on the description by, and used by kind permission of, Bob Trubshaw, from his Interactive Little-known Leicestershire and Rutland CD-ROM.
You may be viewing yesterday's version of this page. To see the most up to date information please register for a free account.


Blackfordby Spring
Blackfordby Spring submitted by HOLYWELL : The Blackfordby Spring where can be seen a plaque describing its history. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Blackfordby Spring
Blackfordby Spring submitted by Horatio : The overall view of the location of Blackfordby spring (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

Blackfordby Spring
Blackfordby Spring submitted by Horatio : Close to home this one this one or rather was. So this spring, I have laid down with my head below ground level and have drunk gallons of water out of this spring as a child of the village in the 70's and 80"s where I lived for thr first 16 years of my life. The building on the left 'Blackfordby Old School Room' was our youth club. Beyond that can be seen St Margarets Church which is now a nic... (Vote or comment on this photo)

Do not use the above information on other web sites or publications without permission of the contributor.

Nearby Images from Geograph Britain and Ireland:
SK3318 : Beyond the grave(s) by cris sloan
by cris sloan
©2007(licence)
SK3318 : St Margaret of Antioch, Blackfordby by Mat Fascione
by Mat Fascione
©2008(licence)
SK3318 : Dead thirsty by cris sloan
by cris sloan
©2007(licence)
SK3318 : Blackfordby Black Lion Pub by the bitterman
by the bitterman
©2012(licence)
SK3318 : Church and Public House in Blackfordby by Jonathan Clitheroe
by Jonathan Clitheroe
©2015(licence)

The above images may not be of the site on this page, they are loaded from Geograph.
Please Submit an Image of this site or go out and take one for us!


Click here to see more info for this site

Nearby sites

Click here to view sites on an interactive OS map

Key: Red: member's photo, Blue: 3rd party photo, Yellow: other image, Green: no photo - please go there and take one, Grey: site destroyed

Download sites to:
KML (Google Earth)
GPX (GPS waypoints)
CSV (Garmin/Navman)
CSV (Excel)

To unlock full downloads you need to sign up as a Contributory Member. Otherwise downloads are limited to 50 sites.


Turn off the page maps and other distractions

Nearby sites listing. In the following links * = Image available
 1.6km SW 223° Blackfordby Spring* Holy Well or Sacred Spring (SK3217)
 5.8km ENE 63° Staunton Harold's ancient village* Ancient Village or Settlement (SK3822120860)
 7.0km ENE 58° Moated Mound at Breedon-on-the-Hill* Artificial Mound (SK3902822009)
 7.1km N 9° Hangman's Stone (Ingleby)* Marker Stone (SK34162524)
 7.8km N 9° Heath Wood, Ingleby* Artificial Mound (SK34222591)
 7.9km E 92° Griffy's Well* Holy Well or Sacred Spring (SK4118)
 9.0km NE 56° St Mary and St Hardulf (Breedon on the Hill)* Ancient Cross (SK4055723335)
 9.0km WNW 300° St Andrew's Well (Burton on Trent)* Holy Well or Sacred Spring (SK25212266)
 9.1km NE 56° The Bulwarks (Breedon on the Hill)* Hillfort (SK406233)
 9.1km N 5° Anchor Church* Cave or Rock Shelter (SK3390827236)
 9.4km NNW 343° St Wystan's (Repton)* Early Christian Sculptured Stone (SK30292717)
 9.5km NNW 340° St Thomas' Well (Repton) Holy Well or Sacred Spring (SK29822713)
 9.5km NNW 338° St Ann's Well (Repton)* Holy Well or Sacred Spring (SK29442699)
 9.8km NE 34° Kings Newton Holy Well* Holy Well or Sacred Spring (SK38572629)
 10.1km N 2° Round Hill Barrow* Round Barrow(s) (SK33342832)
 10.2km E 90° Grace Dieu Priory Stone* Standing Stone (Menhir) (SK433183)
 10.5km E 101° Whitwick Spring* Holy Well or Sacred Spring (SK435163)
 10.6km N 351° Findern Cursus Cursus (SK314287)
 10.8km N 354° Findern Cursus Cursus (SK319289)
 11.4km E 95° Swanimote Hill* Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature (SK445172)
 11.8km NNE 17° Swarkestone Lows* Barrow Cemetery (SK365295)
 12.2km E 82° Belton Banjo enclosure* Causewayed Enclosure (SK45161997)
 12.2km E 97° Altar Stone, Whitwick* Modern Stone Circle etc (SK453168)
 12.7km NE 53° Castle Donington hilltop mound* Long Barrow (SK432260)
 13.1km WSW 243° Stone in Croxall Churchyard* Marker Stone (SK2140512127)
View more nearby sites and additional images

<< Chysauster Fogou

Burton Lazars Stockwell >>

Please add your thoughts on this site

Explore Wales with the amazing Megalithic Portal smartphone app

Explore Wales with the amazing Megalithic Portal smartphone app

Sponsors

Auto-Translation (Google)

Translate from English into:

"Blackfordby Spring" | Login/Create an Account | 1 comment
  
Go back to top of page    Comments are owned by the poster. We aren't responsible for their content.
Re: Blackfordby Spring by Anonymous on Saturday, 27 May 2023
Heard recently that the spring has been contaminated by the nearby building site! Do you see the water surrounding the spring on the recent pictures? (03/05/23) Apparently it is from that and has too much algae and moss in it. Now there are metal barricades temporarily put in place until it is fixed and keep people out.

I am now going to St John the Baptist church in Whitwick for my spring water fix while I wait for it to "reopen".
[ Reply to This ]

Your Name: Anonymous [ Register Now ]
Subject:


Add your comment or contribution to this page. Spam or offensive posts are deleted immediately, don't even bother

<<< What is five plus one as a number? (Please type the answer to this question in the little box on the left)
You can also embed videos and other things. For Youtube please copy and paste the 'embed code'.
For Google Street View please include Street View in the text.
Create a web link like this: <a href="https://www.megalithic.co.uk">This is a link</a>  

Allowed HTML is:
<p> <b> <i> <a> <img> <em> <br> <strong> <blockquote> <tt> <li> <ol> <ul> <object> <param> <embed> <iframe>

We would like to know more about this location. Please feel free to add a brief description and any relevant information in your own language.
Wir möchten mehr über diese Stätte erfahren. Bitte zögern Sie nicht, eine kurze Beschreibung und relevante Informationen in Deutsch hinzuzufügen.
Nous aimerions en savoir encore un peu sur les lieux. S'il vous plaît n'hesitez pas à ajouter une courte description et tous les renseignements pertinents dans votre propre langue.
Quisieramos informarnos un poco más de las lugares. No dude en añadir una breve descripción y otros datos relevantes en su propio idioma.