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<< Our Photo Pages >> Our Lady's Well (Oakham) - Holy Well or Sacred Spring in England in Leicestershire and Rutland

Submitted by enkidu41 on Tuesday, 31 August 2004  Page Views: 7039

Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Our Lady's Well (Oakham)
Country: England County: Leicestershire and Rutland Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Oakham
Map Ref: SK866095
Latitude: 52.676293N  Longitude: 0.720593W
Condition:
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3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
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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
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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
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Our Lady's Well (Oakham)
Our Lady's Well (Oakham) submitted by enkidu41 : (Vote or comment on this photo)
Our Lady's Well at Oakham was once famed for curing sore eyes - providing that a pin was thrown in first.

In 1291 indulgences could be obtained by visiting Oakham Church during its patronal festival - All Saints - and there was a pilgrimage (at a price) to Our Lady's Well. In 1881 it was visited by the future Queen Alexandra. It is to the north-east of the town, on an area of rough ground near a modern housing estate.

Based on the description by, and used by kind permission of, Bob Trubshaw, from his Interactive Little-known Leicestershire and Rutland CD-ROM.
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Our Lady's Well (Oakham)
Our Lady's Well (Oakham) submitted by bscwilde : The stream appeared to continue almost to what had once been the village of Barleythorpe, somewhere around what is now Saddlers Court, but modern maps show the stream to be visible only some 700m to the east of this point. I wonder if 'Kilburn Road' and 'Kilburn End' take their names by reference to this small stream? I think that is where one might concentrate the search for this lost well. An... (Vote or comment on this photo)

Our Lady's Well (Oakham)
Our Lady's Well (Oakham) submitted by bscwilde : The structure off Kingfisher Close adjacent to the stream given as SK866,095 in evidently a storm drain outlet cast in reinforced concrete, discharging into the stream and some distance from its source. In 1900 there had been a water mill 420m west of this point, adjacent to the playing fields at the end of Barnstedt Drive. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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