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Well

Sacred Well

<b>Well</b>Posted by BrigantesNationImage © BrigantesNation.com
This site is of disputed antiquity. If you have any information that could help clarify this site's authenticity, please post below or leave a post in the forum.
Also known as:
  • St. Michael's Well
  • Mickey or Mickel Well

Nearest Town:Ripon (11km SE)
OS Ref (GB):   SE267821 / Sheet: 99
Latitude:54° 14' 1.11" N
Longitude:   1° 35' 25.21" W

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There can be no doubt that this is an ancient sacred Well. It sits on Holly Hill, and the village that it gives it's name to was the site of an significant bath house in Roman times, possibly including a temple.

A visit to Well church may well reward you with a sight of the goddess of Well spring - a fish-bodied female figure is carved into one of the external window lintels.

The only other place where this image has been found so far is inside the church at Kirklington - the next village into which the spring at Well flows.
Posted by BrigantesNation
17th May 2004ce