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Pickel Well, Birstall, West Yorkshire
Sacred Well: OS Grid Reference – SE 2180 2633 Archaeology & History Seemingly built over in recent years, the Pickel Well was one of the main water supplies to the people of Gomersal and Birstall in earlier times. Getting its … Continue reading
Posted in Holy Wells, Yorkshire, West
Tagged antiquarian, antiquities, Archaeology, bharguests, Birstall, christianity, Cleckheaton, death, dialect, earth mysteries, english heritage, folklore, ghosts, Gomersal, hauntings, healing wells, Holy Wells, hydromancy, legends, medieval history, monks, sacred sites, springs, water, West Yorkshire
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Doidy Poidy Well, Gomersal, West Yorkshire
Healing Well: OS Grid Reference – unknown Archaeology & History This bizarre-sounding well owed its name—if we are to accept H.A. Cadman’s (1930) version of history—to the local land-owner, “Joseph Mortimer and it was so-called because Mortimer’s christian name was … Continue reading
Posted in Brigantia (Northern England), Holy Wells, Yorkshire, West
Tagged antiquarian, antiquities, Archaeology, Birstall, Bradford, Cleckheaton, dialect, earth mysteries, english heritage, Gomersal, healing wells, Holy Wells, hydromancy, medieval history, sacred sites, springs, water, West Yorkshire
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Moor Lane Well, Gomersal, West Yorkshire
Healing Well: OS Grid Reference – SE 2071 2677 Archaeology & History Not far from the old maypole, the Moor Lane Well was the innocuous-sounding site where legend told that a phantom horse was once seen running up and down … Continue reading
Posted in Brigantia (Northern England), Holy Wells, Yorkshire, West
Tagged antiquarian, antiquities, Archaeology, Birstall, Bradford, Cleckheaton, customs, dialect, earth mysteries, english heritage, folklore, Gomersal, healing wells, Holy Wells, hydromancy, medieval history, Riding the Stang, sacred sites, springs, traditions, water, West Yorkshire
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Mannerly Well, Gomersal, West Yorkshire
Healing Well: OS Grid Reference – SE 2107 2515 Also Known as: Manor Lea Well Archaeology & History Originally called the ‘Manor Lea Well’ because it could be found on the far west of the land belonging to the Manor … Continue reading
Posted in Brigantia (Northern England), Holy Wells, Yorkshire, West
Tagged antiquarian, antiquities, Archaeology, Birstall, Bradford, calendar customs, Cleckheaton, dialect, earth mysteries, english heritage, folklore, Gomersal, healing wells, Holy Wells, hydromancy, medieval history, rituals, sacred sites, springs, traditions, water, West Yorkshire
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St. Lambert’s Well, Burneston, North Yorkshire
Holy Well: OS Grid Reference – SE 3089 8496 Archaeology & History Surveyed by the Ordnance Survey lads in 1853 and subsequently published on the first OS-map of the area three years later, very little seems to be known about … Continue reading
Posted in Brigantia (Northern England), Holy Wells, Yorkshire, North
Tagged ancient sites, antiquarian, antiquities, Archaeology, Burneston, Carthorpe, christianity, english heritage, folk-lore, folklore, Holy Wells, hydromancy, hydropathy, medieval history, North Yorkshire, sacred sites, sacred water, saints, springs, St Lambert, Theakston, tourist attractions, water
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Haworth Moor Spa Wells, West Yorkshire
Healing Wells: OS Grid Reference – SE 0041 3513 Getting Here Go through Haworth and head for the well-known Penistone Hill country park. On the far western side of the hill up near the top of Moorside Lane, there’s a … Continue reading
Posted in Brigantia (Northern England), Holy Wells, Yorkshire, West
Tagged antiquities, Archaeology, earth mysteries, England, english heritage, folklore, Haworth, healing, healing wells, history, Holy Wells, mineral springs, Oakworth, Oxenhope, spa wells, spas, spaws, springs, Stanbury, water, West Yorkshire
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St. Osyth’s Well, St. Osyth, Essex
Holy Well: OS Grid Reference – TM 116 166 Archaeology & History This spring of water is in the edge of Nun’s Wood on the north side of the Dolphin Pond pool and is covered by a small stone building, … Continue reading
Posted in Essex, Holy Wells
Tagged Essex, folk-lore, folklore, ghosts, healing, holy well, Holy Wells, hydromancy, sacred springs, saints, spas, springs, St. Osyth, water
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Serpent’s Well, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire
Sacred Well: OS Grid Reference – SP 31 27? Archaeology & History This legendary-sounding spring of water was described in field-name listings from the 1770 Enclosure Acts, but nothing seems to have been written about it since. To me at least, … Continue reading
Posted in England (south), Holy Wells, Oxfordshire
Tagged antiquities, Archaeology, Chipping Norton, dragons, folk-lore, folklore, healing wells, history, Holy Wells, hydromancy, Oxfordshire, sacred well, springs, water
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