Hi
If anyone is interested in Northumberland (or indeed any other county)
I can email the results of a search on my county-by-county database
built up over the last 30+ years.
The search results come out in plain text (and will include unrelated
info!!). But if I've come across a reference to a well or spring then
there will be at least a name - and usually more info too.
For copyright reasons these search results can only be used for
private research purposes as the database includes the gazetteers from
Janet Bord's more recent books (i.e. the ones published by Heart of
Albion) and Vol 1 of Jeremy's study of English holy wells.
Bob
Quoting ross parish <[log in to unmask]>:
> Thanks Jeremy
> Very interesting it does look like a fair bit of map/field work
> required in that county. Im overdue a visit to Northumbria.
>
> All the best
> Ross
>
>
>
> Sent from Samsung Mobile on O2
>
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Jeremy Harte <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 28/07/2019 14:27 (GMT+00:00)
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Northumberland Holy Wells
>
> A pleasant evening with Stan Beckensall’s Place Names and Field
> Names of Northumberland (Fonthill, 2016) yielded several holy wells
> from a county not otherwise recorded in much detail onomastically.
> The book is the latest incarnation of work which was originally
> published in 1970, but I’ll stick to the 2016 ed for now as that’s
> accessible.
>
> I found Hallywell Leazes in Thirston (p89), Halley Well Butts 1567
> in Lesbury (p108), Halleywell Crook Flatt 1620 in Tughall (p117) and
> Holy Well Field in Newlands (p128). There’s also a list of
> field-names including Lady Well Cavel (p137), Edinwell derived from
> St. Aidan (p140), and St. Mary Well (p153) plus a Holy Burn Close
> (p145). I wrote to Dr. Beckensall to ask if he could identify
> townships for these, but he kindly got back saying that it was many
> years since he’d worked on the original book (in which the maps are
> rather clearer than the 2016 reprint) and memory can’t hold
> everything, but that his working papers were all at the County
> Record Office in Woodhorn. So there’s more to be found out if anyone
> is heading in that direction.
>
> Jeremy Harte
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