Yorkshire Holy Wells
 

 

 

Lady Well  - Pateley Bridge
(SE 1840 6745)

 The OS map marks this Lady Well in italic script indicating this is a site of some antiquity, possibly with built stonework etc. but as the picture shows, any structure has been destroyed by this concrete water tank (most likely done to supply a farm at the edge of the moor). There are a few pieces of rough stone scattered about but no other indications of what the well might have looked like.
Some water flows from the tank overflow pipe, but the spring appears to have re-emerged among the grass in front of the tank and and flows away as a small stream (see larger pic below).

This is a rather remote site for a holywell but there maybe some ecclesiastical connection with the area as there is a Bishops moor, High/Low bishopside and Bishop keld farm nearby. 500yds across the moor to the west of the Lady well are the interestingly named Midwife Stones (see pics below).

Access - On the open moorland of Pateley Moor.
Condition - Any well structure appears to have been destroyed, but the spring still flows.

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