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Our Lady's Well (Oakham)
Date Added: 29th Apr 2024
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Leicestershire and Rutland)
Visited: Yes on 7th Aug 2020
Our Lady's Well (Oakham) submitted by bscwilde on 7th Aug 2020. The structure off Kingfisher Close adjacent to the stream given as SK866,095 in evidently a storm drain outlet cast in reinforced concrete, discharging into the stream and some distance from its source. In 1900 there had been a water mill 420m west of this point, adjacent to the playing fields at the end of Barnstedt Drive.
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Robin Hood and Little John
Date Added: 29th Apr 2024
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: England (Cambridgeshire)
Visited: Yes on 21st Nov 2020
Robin Hood and Little John submitted by bscwilde on 21st Nov 2020. The gate to the enclosure is padlocked. The site was overgrown throughout the summer but I returned one sunny day in November to see the grass cut down.
I could not say for sure, but in my imagination "Robin Hood" is on the left, with the somewhat bulkier "Little John" on the right.
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Ashwell Wishing Well
Date Added: 29th Apr 2024
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Leicestershire and Rutland)
Visited: Yes on 7th Aug 2020
Ashwell Wishing Well submitted by bscwilde on 7th Aug 2020. The stonework enclosure is formed into an embankment of the adjoining field, amongst ash trees. This water source may have given the village its name (there are quite a number of Ashwells around the UK and there may be some tie-in between 'healing waters' and 'sacred groves', although that is far from proven here. There are other explanations in the etymology and this is not the only local water source. The enclosure is coursed undressed stone, which rises almost cone-like behind the gothic a...
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St Botolph (Helpston)
Date Added: 29th Apr 2024
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Cambridgeshire)
Visited: Yes on 22nd Apr 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 5
St Botolph (Helpston) submitted by bscwilde on 22nd Apr 2024. Smaller 'wheel', simpler and in a flat plane but also suggestive of five arms, almost petal-like, rather than in a cruciform alignment.
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