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Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Holy Well (Lower Burnham) Alternative Name: Well of the Blessed Redeemer; Alley WellCountry: England County: Lincolnshire Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Village: Haxey
Map Ref: SE78520205
Latitude: 53.509282N Longitude: 0.817488W
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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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3 | Ordinary |
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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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Holy Well or Sacred Spring in Lincolnshire
This ancient Holy Well is “ ...dedicated to the ever-blessed Redeemer, and on the festival of His Ascension was supposed to possess the power of healing all sorts of deformities, weaknesses, and cutaneous diseases in children, numbers of which were brought from all parts to be dipped in it on that day.”
Antiquarian Stonehouse (1839) notes: “about one hundred and twenty years ago, the concourse of visitors was so great that a Village Feast was held at the same time… and at a much later period conveniences were annually made for the use of the bathers, and gingerbread-stalls and other slight reflections were provided on the spot. This practice has, however, of late years fallen altogether into disuse… The spring now appears in a dirty and neglected state.”
The spring arises and is called the being at the top of Holy Well lane, with Holy Well House the nearest dwelling. It had been for years only a dry, roughly rectangular, hollow when, quite recently, Mr. Horton, (editor of the Epworth Bells) and some colleagues, went to open it. ‘Within minutes of digging, water gushed out, and the hollow filled.’ No evidence of constructional material was seen and the well was fenced in and left. A sample of water was analysed and found to contain beneficial salts.
For more information see Pastscape Monument No. 59224 for Holy Well and the Battle of Maserfield; and The Northern Antiquarian's page for Holy Well, Lower Burnham, Haxey, Lincolnshire. TNA give directions for finding this site, together with a brief archaeology & history and local folklore.
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