<< Our Photo Pages >> St Anne's Well (St Helens) - Holy Well or Sacred Spring in England in Merseyside
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Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: St Anne's Well (St Helens)Country: England
NOTE: This site is 1.079 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Merseyside Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: St Helens Nearest Village: Rainhill
Map Ref: SJ49969143
Latitude: 53.417287N Longitude: 2.754366W
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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Holy Well or Sacred Spring in Merseyside. St Anne’s Well is described by English Heritage as a well preserved example of a medieval holy well of the type with a shallow square basin and steps leading down to the bottom. Unfortunately farming activities seem to be doing considerable damage to the fabric of this well, ploughing is going on right up to the edge of the well and at least one of the surrounding blocks is now dislodged and sitting in the basin which is very silted up, the steps described in the 2000 EH report are no longer visible. This site needs attention if it is not to become yet another statistic in the list of lost holy wells. Magicmap Reference
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