<< Our Photo Pages >> St. Anne's Well (Caversham) - Holy Well or Sacred Spring in England in Berkshire
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Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: St. Anne's Well (Caversham)Country: England County: Berkshire Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Reading Nearest Village: Caversham
Map Ref: SU712750
Latitude: 51.469497N Longitude: 0.976345W
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 |
0 | no data |
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SolarMegalith visited on 11th Jun 2011 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 3 Access: 5
Caversham is an ancient settlement, and a shrine existed here beside the River at the time of the arrival of the Normans. Later, a chapel dedicated to St. Anne was situated on the Caversham side of the first bridge here across the Thames.
I had seen references to the well a number of months before I managed to locate it. It is to be found, appropriately, on Priest Hill just next to the junction with St. Anne’s Road. Interestingly, St. Anne’s Road does not appear on the 1882 OS map, and Priest Hill was then known as Priest Lane.
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