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| Anchorite Well, Kendal | ||
| runs into:- |  Cock Beck |
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| Anchorite Well | ||
| Street:- | Anchorite Fields (in area of) | |
| locality:- | Kendal | |
| civil parish:- | Kendal (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | locality | |
| locality type:- | well | |
| locality type:- | spring | |
| locality type:- | building/s (once) | |
| coordinates:- | SD51409193 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD5191 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD59 | |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 38 8) placename:- Anchorite's Well placename:- Anchorite's House |
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| source data:- | Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25
inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton,
Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948. "Anchorite's Well / Anchorite's House" |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Speed 1611 placename:- Ankeriche, The |
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| source data:- | Map, hand coloured engraving, The Countie Westmorland and
Kendale the Cheif Towne, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by
John Speed, 1610, published by George Humble, Popes Head Alley,
London, 1611-12. click to enlargeSP14Mk.jpg "1[2] The Ankeriche" small building and an enclosure of trees item:- Armitt Library : 2008.14.5 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Anchorite Well |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "ANCHORITE WELL / / ANCHORITE FIELDS / KENDAL / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 75346 / SD5140691932" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Spring, associated with a medieval hermit. Coursed, squared rubble enclosure wall (c4 ft high on south and west sides) possibly partly medieval. Spring originally 6-7 ft deep; filled up to within 6 ins of surface in late C20." |
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| hearsay:- |
The ginnel opposite the gates of Holy Trinity Church, Kendal, leads to an area where
members of the Anchorite Order lived in cells. One of these was Julian de Clifford;
guilty of murder, he went to fight in The Crusades, in the Holy Land, to atone for
his sin. He joined the order on his return. |
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| An alternative story is that a man who lost the love of a Lady Blanche went off to
the Crusades to forget. When he came back he lived near here in a beehive cell, and
used the water to cure leprousy and other diseases. |
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| The spring feeds Cock Beck. |
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