Thornborough Central

Trip No.64  Entry No.3  Date Added: 16th Jan 2018
Site Type: Henge Country: England (Yorkshire (North))
Visited: Yes on 15th Jan 2018. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4

Log Text: Thornborough Henge: We stopped off here just before sunset and walked round the henge in the dusk. This time, rather than being here on our own, there were lots of dog walkers around for the first part of our visit. I was horrified by the amount of burrowing that was all around the henge; it seemed to be slowly destroying the banks of the henge. I don't remember there being this much on our last visit. Not sure what to do about it. An email to the local archaeologists?

I took some photographs but need to work out how to produce a panorama from them, as my photostitch software seems to have stopped working.

Robin Hood's Well (Burghwallis)

Trip No.64  Entry No.1  Date Added: 16th Jan 2018
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring Country: England (Yorkshire (South))
Visited: Yes on 15th Jan 2018. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 2 Access 5

Log Text: Robin Hood's Well, just off the A1 near Burghwallis: With the rain pounding down on the car and a warning light just appeared on the car dashboard, we were glad to pull off the A1 near Burghwallis. It was easy enough to pull onto the layby (it was a busy place), but difficult to get back onto the A1 and we had to wait quite a long time for a big enough gap in the traffic to appear.

I pulled my coat on and headed off the few metres from the car to the well housing, getting soaked on the way. Having wanted to stop off here for years, but never having succeeded, I confess to being really disappointed. This really is just a recently constructed stone 'well house', with a bit of graffiti inside and a vague hollow for where the well pipe might have been situated. Still, I achieved it and got a few photos, having to wipe the camera down well once I huddled back in the car to warm up.

Little John's Well (Hampole)

Trip No.64  Entry No.2  Date Added: 16th Jan 2018
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring Country: England (Yorkshire (South))
Visited: Yes on 15th Jan 2018. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 2 Access 5

Log Text: Little John's Well, Hampole: Please note, when I say disabled access - the site is visible (just) from the road, but there are a few steps up the brambled covered slope (not enough to say 'short walk on a footpath' because there is none). For what seemed to be like a country area with a few little villages around, there was an endless stream of traffic, including huge lorries, but then I guess there is a huge quarry immediately adjacent to this site, plus it sits by the side of the A638, a main road into Doncaster.

With parked on the wide entrance to Hazel Lane (made so because the huge lorries need to be able to swing round) and walked round the corner to the A638 and found the well hidden behind a large clump of brambles.

Not having expected to come here (it wasn’t far off the route and we had half an hour to kill) I wasn’t dressed for clambering up slippery, bramble covered slopes (being attired in long skirt and shoes for scattering my step father’s ashes), but with the help of my husband, I made it up the short slope anyway. There was a further stone structure higher up the slope, and from the Pastscape entry, this appears to be the main spring, which feeds into the well trough below.

There were also stone facings higher up the hill, but Andrew said these were more likely to be there to support the slope. From reading the Pastscape entry this morning, these stone may have been part of the enclosure for the well.