<< Our Photo Pages >> St Leonard's Well (Sheepstor) - Holy Well or Sacred Spring in England in Devon
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Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: St Leonard's Well (Sheepstor)Country: England County: Devon Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Dousland Nearest Village: Sheepstor
Map Ref: SX5607467630
Latitude: 50.490751N Longitude: 4.030365W
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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lucasn visited on 24th Jun 2019 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 Access: 5
Anne T visited on 15th May 2019 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 Access: 5 St Leonard's Holy Well, Sheepstor: I spotted this well as we were driving down to the car park near Whittenknowles and we stopped to photograph it on the way back.
The sunshine was really, really bright coming over the wall, so the few photos I took worked out best looking at the well from an angle. The well was completely dry, with the well structure full of ferns and weeds.
Our last stop of the day before going for an ice cold drink at Princetown.
cazzyjane have visited here
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3 Ambience: 3 Access: 5
St Leonard’s Well wells up happily into the basin formed by the base of the window although it may have originally risen on nearby church land before being piped to the roadside for the convenience of the villagers.
Update May 2019: St Leonard's Well is recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 438815 and Historic England List ID 1326392. Pastscape tells us the original site of the well was in a field belonging to a glebeof the church; water was then piped to the roadside, where "a canopy was built with fragments from the old east window of the church" (source: Devonshire Association reports and transactions (S Baring Gould) 30, 1898 Page 90).
The most recent site visit recorded on Pastscape was dated 1980, when the original site of the well could not be found. In May 2019, the well was dry at the time of our visit.
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