<< Text Pages >> Bath Spring - Holy Well or Sacred Spring in England in Derbyshire
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Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Bath SpringCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 1.467 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Derbyshire Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Bradwell
Map Ref: SK174820
Latitude: 53.334626N Longitude: 1.740171W
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 |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
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 |
0 | No data. |
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 |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
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The spring was located near to the Bath Inn, now renamed and was still marked until the 1900s on the O/S. Its waters were said to be warm and saline, the only one in the county. Local belief records that it was a Roman bath or older, not so fanciful an idea considering that Roman station Navio is located nearby. Pilkington (1789) notes that:
“I took pains to discover it, but a credibly informed that the impregnation is considerably strong. It is said to be used in ulcerous and scorbutic complaints”
Evans (1912) notes that in 1830 a Robert Middleton of Smalldale, erected a bath here, by then ruinous although its size could be ascertained being five feet deep and reached by six steeps. Local historian Naylor (1983) suggests that the bath house could still be traced but this must have been lost long before this because the present owner does not recall it. The spring now arises through a small stone lined chamber and fills a pool and drains away as a culverted stream within the Eden Tree Caravan site. The water is said to be salty and warm, however the evidence of considerable aquatic plant growth may suggest that the spring is not saline.
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