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Submitted by TimPrevett on Friday, 13 July 2007 Page Views: 16002

Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Nun's Well (Cannock Wood)
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 5.329 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Staffordshire Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Cannock
Map Ref: SK04151180
Latitude: 52.703856N Longitude: 1.94002W
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

1 Ambience:

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

3 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.

3 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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Fallow visited on 2nd Feb 2019 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 3 Access: 3 The well is accessible via a footpath and a couple of stiles. It's a permissive path and there are likely to be animals in the surrounding fields. The well itself is fenced off with an electric fence, at the foot of a large oak tree.

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**Nun's Well (Cannock Wood)** submitted by TimPrevett : The site of Nun's Well can be accessed by a permissive path from the north from the car park. It is now sealed off by an old gate, chicken wire, galvanised sheets and earth - right beneath an oak tree. If you look carefully to the north east of the trunk, there is a nook through which you can put your arm and camera, revealing a recessed well housing and the materials which now block it to the fro... (Vote or comment on this photo)

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