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Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Skinner's Well (Finsbury)
Country: England County: Greater London Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: London Nearest Village: Finsbury
Map Ref: TQ313822
Latitude: 51.523461N Longitude: 0.108816W
Condition:

5	Perfect
4	Almost Perfect
3	Reasonable but with some damage
2	Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1	Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0	No data.
-1	Completely destroyed

no data Ambience:

5	Superb
4	Good
3	Ordinary
2	Not Good
1	Awful
0	No data.

no data Access:

5	Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4	Short walk on a footpath
3	Requiring a bit more of a walk
2	A long walk
1	In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0	No data.

no data Accuracy:

5	co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4	co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3	co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2	co-ordinates of the nearest village
1	co-ordinates of the nearest town
0	no data

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Holy Well or Sacred Spring in Greater London

The Northern Antiquarian (TNA) features a page for this now lost well - see their page for Skinners Well, Finsbury, London.

The first mention of this well is from a 1197 account, which reads: "Skinners’ Well is there described as lying in the valley between the Nun’s Priory and the Holeburn, in which was a large fish-pond…"

Stow’s Survey (of 1720) say:‘Skinners’ Well is almost quite lost ... But I am certainly informed by a knowing parishioner that it lies to the west of the church (of St. James, Clerkenwell), enclosed within certain houses there.’ The parish would fain recover the well again, but cannot tell where the pipes lie. But Dr Rogers, who formerly lived in an house there, showed Mr Edmund Howard…marks in a wall in the close where, as he affirmed, the pipes lay, that it might be known after his death."

Septimus Sunderland also mentioned in his 1915 publication that "Mystery Play were performed yearly around (the well) by the Skinners of London" in 1603.

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TQ3182 : THE RAY FARRINGDON by Mike Quinn — by Mike Quinn
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TQ3182 : The Guardian by Derek Harper — by Derek Harper
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TQ3182 : A walk from Clerkenwell to Piccadilly (41) by Basher Eyre — by Basher Eyre
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TQ3182 : The 'Coach and Horses', Ray Street by Dr Neil Clifton — by Dr Neil Clifton
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TQ3182 : Free Word Centre, 60 Farringdon Lane, London EC1 by Jim Osley — by Jim Osley
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