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Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Old Wife''s Spring (Snaizeholme)
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 7.289 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Yorkshire (North) Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Hawes Nearest Village: Snaizeholme
Map Ref: SD834847
Latitude: 54.257698N Longitude: 2.256313W
Condition:

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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
0	No data.
-1	Completely destroyed

no data Ambience:

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4	Good
3	Ordinary
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1	Awful
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no data Access:

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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no data Accuracy:

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
0	no data

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Holy Well or Sacred Spring in Yorkshire (North)

Old Wife’s Spring, Snaizeholme, North Yorkshire, which gives directions for finding this spring, together with photographs, and a brief archaeology & history.

TNA says: "The waters emerge from this very steep slope, surrounded by plenty of thorns and thistles, on a part of the hill where the land itself is slowly coming away. After a long dry-spell no doubt, this might be a little more secure; but when we came here she’d been raining on-and-off like h*ll and the waters were a-plenty. It’s difficult to actually locate the exact spot where the water first appears – but like I said, it seems to have, long ago, come from much further up the hill ... the water’s nice n’ clear, good-tasting, and then continues along its downward stream – known as the Old Wife’s Gill – until hitting the small river at the valley bottom."

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