Holy Well of St. John the Baptist
Holy Well of St. John the Baptist is a spring in St John’s, Castlerigg and Wythburn, Cumberland, England. Holy Well of St. John the Baptist is situated nearby to St John’s Church, St John’s in the Vale, as well as near the peak Low Rigg.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include St John’s Church, St John’s in the Vale and High Rigg.
St John’s Church, St John’s in the Vale
Church
Photo: John Salmon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St John's Church is in the valley of St John's in the Vale, Cumbria, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Derwent, the archdeaconry of West Cumberland, and the diocese of Carlisle.
High Rigg
Peak
Photo: Michael Graham, CC BY-SA 2.0.
High Rigg is a small fell located in the English Lake District, approximately three miles southeast of the town of Keswick. It occupies an unusual position, surrounded on all sides by higher fells but not connected by any obvious ridge.
Low Rigg
Peak
Low Rigg is a small hill in the English Lake District a few miles east of the town of Keswick and slightly north of its larger neighbour High Rigg. Geologically, Low Rigg is a lens-shaped laccolith consisting of an intrusion of a fine-grained granite.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Castlerigg stone circle and Chestnut Hill.
Castlerigg stone circle
Locality
Photo: Mike Peel, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Castlerigg Stone Circle is situated on a prominent hill to the east of Keswick, in the Lake District National Park, North West England. It is one of around 1,300 stone circles in the British Isles and Brittany, constructed as a part of a megalithic tradition that lasted from approximately 3200 BC to 2500 BC, during the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Ages.
Chestnut Hill
Suburb
Chestnut Hill is a suburb of Keswick, England, located along the A591 road. It contains the Nether Place Nursing Home and Claremont House, a 19th-century lodge which is an AA 4 diamond hotel. Chestnut Hill is situated 2 miles west of Holy Well of St. John the Baptist.
Threlkeld
Village
Photo: Ian Capper, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Threlkeld is a village and civil parish in the north of the Lake District in Cumbria, England, (in the historic county of Cumberland to the east of Keswick. Threlkeld is situated 2 miles northeast of Holy Well of St. John the Baptist.
Holy Well of St. John the Baptist
- Type: Spring
- Category: body of water
- Location: St John’s, Castlerigg and Wythburn, Cumberland, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.5925° or 54° 35′ 33″ northLongitude
-3.07507° or 3° 4′ 30″ westOpen location code
9C6RHWRF+XXOpenStreetMap ID
node 3102190638OpenStreetMap feature
natural=spring
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