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Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Seven Springs (North Ockendon)
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 2.912 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Essex Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: North Ockendon
Map Ref: TQ590850
Latitude: 51.541505N  Longitude: 0.291406E
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
no data Ambience:
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4Good
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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no data Accuracy:
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 Wells or Sacred Springs in Essex

There are more mysterious healing springs in this area documented in The Northern Antiquarian (TNA), but now their location seemingly lost in the midst of times - see the TNA entry for Seven Springs, North Ockendon, Essex.

TNA tells us: "Although nothing is made of this site in Reaney’s Place-Names of Essex (1935), in Mr Wilson’s (1881) great history book of this region he told that an early spelling of the village was Wokyndon Septemfontium, or Setfontayna and also Seetfountaynes, indicating it as a “site of seven springs of water.” Amidst a quite different and plain derivation of Ockendon being little other than ‘Wocca’s Hill,’ Reaney (1935) does mention how the village “was also named after Ralph de Septem Fontibus,” which is certainly “Ralph of the Seven Springs,” but says nothing more about it, as if to quaintly pass it by. There is a similar local notary of the Baldwin family from the village who, in 1320, styled himself as ‘Badewinus de Wokyndon Setfontans’ relating again to Seven Springs. However, no precise geographical position can be shown where such waters arose and no field-name surveys exist to substantiate the whereabouts of the site. In the fine synopsis on mineral wells by Christy & Thresh (1910) they also cite these early literary accounts, but are unable to provide a location. Does anyone know more?"

Note: Does anyone have any information about these now lost springs? If so, please help by posting a comment below. Thank you.
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TQ5884 : Field of barley, North Ockendon, Essex by John Winfield
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TQ5984 : A young crop, North Ockenden by N Chadwick
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TQ5884 : A young crop by N Chadwick
by N Chadwick
©2011(licence)
TQ5884 : Footpath to North Ockenden by N Chadwick
by N Chadwick
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TQ5984 : Footpath to North Ockenden by N Chadwick
by N Chadwick
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Re: Seven Springs (North Ockendon) by Anonymous on Monday, 06 January 2020
In the paper Seven Wells, in Journal of the English Place-Name Society 39 (2007), Keith Briggs says:
"The name Septfontaines was transferred to England in the early 13th century via the family of Ralph of Setfountayns (de Septem Fontibus) [...], who obtained the manor of Ockendon (Essex),resulting in forms such as Wokindun Set Funteines [...]; this name is therefore manorial rather than topographical."
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