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m6 Nov 27, 2005 16:58:10
Replying to goffik

"The church is in Bramshaw and is dedicated to St Peter. It's full of yews (natch) and I was half expecting to find a well in the grounds! The map ref, according to one website that mentions the church, is SU264166, for anyone interested (and, no - it's NOT marked as a barrow on the map)"

there seems to be something here - but is this well ancient or merely old?

'Hampshire Treasures: Volume 5 ( New Forest), Page 24 - Bramshaw, Entry 01
Group D - Buildings, Monuments and Engineering Works
Well
Irons. Old Healing Well, name taken from the colour of its water. Square in plan and lined with timber. Originally a pond for the gun-powder mills at Eyeworth. O.S.A. SU21 SW2.
SU 229 147'

http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/avenue/pd49/places/wells/hantswel.htm

G goffik
goffik Nov 28, 2005 16:40:03
Replying to m6

Hi, m6! Thanks for looking into this...

I stumbled across that snippet on my search for more info, but unfortunately, the well is about 2 miles from teh church, so I don't think it's connected...

A friend of mine projected a line along a row of barrows with hillforts at teh end, and the church sits snugly slap-bang in the middle of them!

A conversation on this board a little while ago suggested the alignments were so due to trade routes or just the quickest point between 2 places, so I don't wanna go into any more "leyline" topics! So the church looks like it COULD have been built on something older - be it a fort, barrow, or whatever, due to it's crossing point of 2 old routes!

G x

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