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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:
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 |
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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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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 |
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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?"
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