Jingling Well

Ridley Common 1

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Rhiannon Feb 19, 2005 13:33:08

Hob - just looking at your pictures of the strange stones at Ridley Common. It's a weird part of the country I suppose historically being a border between one thing and another. and then there's the natural geographic border of the crags (did you say that was the Whin Sill?) which must have produced that historical border.
Anyway don't know what I'm getting at - really wanted to know if you'd been to the 'Jingling Well' I saw close by on the 1:25000 map as it sounds interesting. Though I expect in reality it is a soggier bit of ground surrounded by slightly less soggy bits.

Hob Feb 19, 2005 20:36:01

Replying to Rhiannon

Eyup Rhiannon,

I could waffle for hours about the area around those crags. I went past Jingling Well, it's smack bang in the middle of an bit of landscape that has blown my imagination into overdrive.

If you look on the OSmap you can see Jingling Well has those things that indicate rock outcrop. It's at the bottom of a little cliff on the edge of the path that connects a whole panoply of prehistoric remains. I think it appears out of one of the steppe like features, there are all sorts of strange things going on with the water tables in the vicinity. The Whin Sill has made the underlying rocks fold, bump and wiggle into some odd cofigurations. In some places, it's dry at the bottom of a ridge, and boggy as hell at the top.

I didn't hear it jingling, as I didn't linger, being keen to investigate further along the path, but there is another stream nearby that makes a noise like it's heard the phrase 'babbling brook' and thought " Sod babbling, I'm gonna be more coherent than that".

It's going to take me ages to make any sense of all the stuff I saw around there. The area is also dripping with folkore you may be interested in. I'll bung some up here some point soon.

BTW, did you notice that the prehistoric stuff that continues on the other side of the map? Why are good bits always at the edges of a map?