<< Text Pages >> St. Thomas Becket's Well - Holy Well or Sacred Spring in England in Kent
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Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: St. Thomas Becket's WellCountry: England County: Kent Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Canterbury
Map Ref: TR150579
Latitude: 51.279654N Longitude: 1.081420E
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 in Kent. There are many reports of St. Thomas a Becket’s Well in Canterbury Cathedral, but when I visited in May 2005 the guides had never heard of it.
My directions were that it was situated north of the choir, and, on investigating this area I found a map of the medieval Priory with a well marked in this position.
It is marked between two water towers, one of which still stands. There is now no sign of the well, although it probably survives beneath the flagstones.
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