Lady Well - Seaton Ross
(SE 7844 4026)

This Lady Well is marked on the modern OS map and appears to be a small pond in the corner of a field to the south of Seaton Ross village. The map also shows two footpaths from the village converging on this location. 

Back in 1988 the pond was described as being totally overgrown and inaccessible among a thicket of bushes and small trees. Little had changed on a visit in May 2000, and the public footpaths across the fields to the pond had also been ploughed out. There was no obvious source for the water in the pool and in its present state it is difficult to imagine that this was ever considered a holy well?
However a search among the bushes on the north side of the pond located a field drain piping murky water into a stream ditch, while a few metres to the east there was also a strong flow of clean water entering the ditch from some unknown source. Is this perhaps the original Lady Well spring (?) as this source is located nearer the Lady Well name marked on the OS map?

This holy well is part of the history of Seaton Ross, and as such it is worth preserving, perhaps the villagers can identify and restore their Lady Well?.

Seaton Ross church is dedicated to St Edmund, but there is a St Helen's farm at Seaton Old Hall to the south.