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Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Bull's WellCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 1.443 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Nottinghamshire Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Nottingham Nearest Village: Bullwell
Map Ref: SK546464
Latitude: 53.012131N Longitude: 1.187653W
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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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4 | Good |
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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3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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Holy Well or Sacred Spring in Nottinghamshire
Giving its name to a suburb of Nottingham, its name is probably derived from either from a Saxon landowner Bulla or from bubbling up or ‘bulling’. Folklore states however a wild angry bull reached here and found a stone in his way and tearing a piece off of it which formed a spring. Does this bull legend suggest a pagan origin of the well or suggest some tribal association as noted above, certainly an Elizabethan map records an Oxwell in the area and this may refer to the same spring. The springhead in the 1800s and early 1900s was often frequented by locals who swam in the pool. Its water was noted good for eyes. The site was filled in in the early 20th century, but its waters now arise at the Moorbridge Nature Reserve.
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