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<< Text Pages >> St John's Well (Welham) - Holy Well or Sacred Spring in England in Nottinghamshire

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Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: St John''s Well (Welham)
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 2.4 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Nottinghamshire Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Retford  Nearest Village: Welham
Map Ref: SK72558280
Latitude: 53.337141N  Longitude: 0.911915W
Condition:
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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.
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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
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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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Holy Well or Sacred Spring in Nottinghamshire

The Northern Antiquarian (TNA) features a page for this unusually sited well - see their entry for St. John’s Well, Welham, Nottinghamshire, which includes photographs, directions for finding St. John's Well House, a brief archaeology & history and local folklore.

TNA tells us this is: "One of the most unusually sited of Nottinghamshire’s holy wells is St. John’s Well at Welham. It lies beneath a private kitchen floor in a house in Bonemill Lane in Welham, just off the Clarborough Road out of Retford", and adds: "It is shown on Chapman’s map of Nottinghamshire (1774) as ‘Well House’. Piercy (1828) gives the greatest information and states that the hamlet of Welham was named after St. John’s Well whose waters contained magnesium and gypsum and was: '“good for rheumatics and scorbutic diseases. Its waters formed into a large bath, and remained entire during the early part of the 18th century, it was famous for many cures, but latterly it has lost much of its celebrity.John Hutchinson, Esq. erected a cottage adjoining, and enclosed the bath, to preserve it from injury. Cold baths like this were formerly regarded with superstitious reverence, being supposed to possess a sovereign remedy for agues such as rheumatism'."

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Nearby Images from Geograph Britain and Ireland:
SK7282 : Bonemill Farm by the canal by Andrew Hill
by Andrew Hill
©2010(licence)
SK7282 : By the canal near Bonemill Farm by Andrew Hill
by Andrew Hill
©2010(licence)
SK7282 : Bone Mill Lane by Steve  Fareham
by Steve Fareham
©2008(licence)
SK7282 : Bonemill Bridge by Graham Horn
by Graham Horn
©2012(licence)
SK7282 : Bone Mill Bridge by Geoff Pick
by Geoff Pick
©2007(licence)

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