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Holy Well (Biddestone)
Date Added: 27th May 2024
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
Holy Well (Biddestone) submitted by KiwiBetsy on 13th Sep 2006. The Starwell is quite a large spring that flows from a slope and into a small stream. If you are lucky you may find one of the tiny star shaped fossils (crinoids) which give the spring one of it’s names. These fossils are freed from the underlying rock by the water, carried to the surface and deposited in the silty bed of the spring. We spent some time sifting about in the icy water (closely watched by a herd of curious cows) but found only a few modern coins, no doubt left by previous visi...
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Wizard's Well
Date Added: 27th May 2024
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Cheshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
Wizard's Well submitted by TimPrevett on 17th Jun 2002. The Wizard's Well at Alderley Edge.
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Holywell Bay
Date Added: 27th May 2024
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Would like to visit
Holywell Bay submitted by Bladup on 10th Sep 2020. Such colours at the Holywell
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St Anthony's Well (Cinderford)
Date Added: 27th May 2024
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Would like to visit
St Anthony's Well (Cinderford) submitted by HOLYWELL on 28th Aug 2006. St Anthony's Well Forest of Dean
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The Ladywell
Date Added: 27th May 2024
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Berkshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
The Ladywell submitted by DavidCWoods on 26th Sep 2004. The well contains inscriptions "Ye Ancient Ladye Well" and "Restored 1902" together with a lot of more recent carvings. Not absolutely sure whether the decoration represents plants, serpants or something else.
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Cuddington Spring
Date Added: 17th May 2024
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Buckinghamshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
Holy Well (Watnall)
Date Added: 17th May 2024
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Nottinghamshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
Holy Well (Watnall) submitted by HOLYWELL on 26th Aug 2006. The Watnall Holywell
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Friar Tuck's Well
Date Added: 17th May 2024
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Nottinghamshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
Friar Tuck's Well submitted by HOLYWELL on 6th Jan 2011. Close up of the well chamber at the top of the cascade.
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Robin Hood's Well (Beauvale)
Date Added: 8th Jun 2024
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Nottinghamshire)
Visited: Yes on 7th Jun 2024. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 1
Robin Hood's Well (Beauvale) submitted by HOLYWELL on 27th Aug 2006. Robin Hood's Well near Hucknall Nottinghamshire.
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Log Text: A beautiful well in an oval pool that is well hidden among the larch, ash and rhododendrons. On private land, but worth the trip through the brambles and nettles if you believe these sites are worthy of being honoured. They say that there was a lawn behind the spring where the locals would dance on Midsummer's Eve. You can still see where this may have been.
It's also fascinating to think D H Lawrence had visited the site as it's described in Lady' Chatterley's Lover.
I have come to think of this more as Lady Chatterley's Well than Robin Hood's well now.
Long may it be loved and cherished.