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<< Our Photo Pages >> Homeacres Holy Well (Stanwix) - Holy Well or Sacred Spring in England in Cumbria

Submitted by Anne T on Thursday, 10 January 2019  Page Views: 4078

Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Homeacres Holy Well (Stanwix)
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 1.567 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Cumbria Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Carlisle
Map Ref: NY40415709
Latitude: 54.904957N  Longitude: 2.930871W
Condition:
5Perfect
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.
-1Completely destroyed
2 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
2 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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Anne T visited on 9th Jan 2019 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 2 Access: 4 Homeacres Holy Well, Rickerby Park, Carlisle: We just about had time to stop off and find this well on our way home. Parking by the lawn tennis club just down the road, we walked to see what we thought was the stump of an old cross at approx. NY 40142 56900, but it turned out to be the stump of an old tree trunk which had been carved into what looked like an old boundary marker. We headed off north east until we reached the junction of Well Lane and the B6264 (Brampton Road), then walked down the road leading to the car park in Rickerby Park. Reaching the junction with the footpath leading almost due west at NY 40510 57081, we walked past a marshy/boggy area which had wooden boarding at one end and a sign saying ‘deep water’. Walking through the gate across the footpath, we peered deep into the undergrowth and eventually spotted what looked like a railway sleeper running about 6-8ft horizontally across the bank with a black void underneath. We tried to walk across the grassy area to the fence to get nearer to take a photograph, but the land was very waterlogged and we retreated. Going back up towards Brampton Road, just past the cattle grid, there are faint traces of a footpath which runs down towards the well. Andrew made it down to the well and took some photographs. Having hurt my shoulder, I decided to stay on (this very busy) road. Andrew said there were also traces of another footpath running towards the well from the southern side of Brampton Road, just opposite Well Lane, but we would have had to climb over the metal railing to access it; the path was just visible, but very overgrown. The well still had water in it. A couple of passers by on the lower path looked us with curiosity, one man asking us what we were looking at. When we told him a holy well, he looked at us in disbelief. I thought the nearby 'Well Lane' might have been a clue, although we initially thought the well was located down Well Lane and not in the park.

Homeacres Holy Well (Stanwix)
Homeacres Holy Well (Stanwix) submitted by Anne T : My husband was brave enough to slide down one of the old paths to the well, from the small road leading to the Rickerby Park car park. This path starts at approx. NY 40399 57112, at the top of the slope and almost immediately due north of the well. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Holy Well or Sacred Spring in Cumbria

This holy well is mentioned very briefly in Pastscape Monument No. 11433, which merely says: "A well below Homeacres, Stanwix, is listed as a Holy Well by McIntire. A lane in the vicinity is known as Well Lane."

The Pastscape record gives a reference to The Holy Wells of Cumberland by W.T. McIntire, which can be found in The Archaeology Data Service, Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Society (1944), Series 2, Volume 44, page 14. McIntire tells us the well was first described in Parsons and White's History of Carlisle, 1829, "as a favourite place of resort for the citizens of Carlisle. The spring rises under an arch beneath Stanishaw Bank".

Today the old paths to the well from the small road from Brampton Road to the Rickerby Park Car park (entrance opposite the southern end of Well Lane), are overgrown but still just visible and must have had proper steps to the well at some time in the not too distant paths.

The well can be seen (just) from the footpath running west from NY 40510 57081. Below the well is a very boggy, waterlogged area of ground which looks as if it used to be a pond (there is an old wooden notice declaring 'deep water'). A concrete lintel can be seen through the undergrowth, with a dark niche, the well house, underneath.

Following the old paths down to the well, the well house still contains dark, brackish water. It looks as if there is barely any flow on the water at this time of the year.

Two locals were interested in what we were looking at, and when we said 'a holy well', clucked in disbelief, as I don't think they knew there was a well here. Good to have seen this well, even though it was in a really sorry state.

Nearby is the Hyssop Holme Well, just below Cavendish Terrace, near the Cricket Club.
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Homeacres Holy Well (Stanwix)
Homeacres Holy Well (Stanwix) submitted by Anne T : A blurred photo looking into the interior of the well house. It still contains dark, brackish water. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Homeacres Holy Well (Stanwix)
Homeacres Holy Well (Stanwix) submitted by Anne T : The well can just about be seen from the gate crossing the footpath at the bottom of the bank in Rickerby Park, NY 40422 57070, looking slightly north west. The lintel is very overgrown and very difficult to spot (just above centre of photo). (Vote or comment on this photo)

Homeacres Holy Well (Stanwix)
Homeacres Holy Well (Stanwix) submitted by Anne T : The (once) deep pond at the bottom of the slope, to the east and just below Homeacres Holy Well (Stanwix) (Vote or comment on this photo)

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NY4057 : Path into Rickerby Park by Oliver Dixon
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NY4057 : Junction of Brampton Road and the minor through Rickerby Park by Graham Robson
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NY4057 : Strange building at the junction of Brompton Road and Well Lane by Roger Templeman
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NY4057 : Benchmark on wall of small building at Well Lane / Brampton Road junction by Roger Templeman
by Roger Templeman
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NY4057 : Climbing Hadrian's Wall by Mary and Angus Hogg
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Re: Hyssop Holme Well (Carlisle) by Anne T on Saturday, 04 June 2022
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Having visited what we thought was Homeacres Well in Cavendish Terrace today, I've just found out there is some confusion with the names of 2 wells within 800m of each other.

According to Historic England, Hyssop Holme Well is at NY 39748 56801, a short walk from Cavendish Terrace in Carlisle (see their list entry 1196993). Yet according to the local paper (see News and Star, 19th January 2017), the well in Cavendish Terrace is called Homeacres. The Antiquarian sources also name the well featured on this site page as Hyssop Holme.

I'll contact HE shortly and try and sort out which is the correct name for the site and make any corrections necessary as soon as I confirm which is right.

[Note: 23rd June 2022: the wells are now correctly named and on the right site pages!]
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