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Originally Posted by z900guy
I was wondering if anyone knows the location of this well ?
At a point in the east of the township, where the boundaries of Hapton and Huncoat join, was a well formerly called Mare or Mere Hole Well, at which a popular festival was formerly held on the first Sunday in May. (fn. 7)
From: 'Townships: Old and New Accrington', A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 6 (1911), pp. 423-427. URL: Townships - Old and New Accrington | British History Online Date accessed: 13 January 2009.
Thanks
Chris |
It was also known as the Mary Hoyle well, its very near Hambledon Reservoir where the old feeder spring was. On the South side of the res: there was large flat area where the Spring Fairs were supposedly held back in the 17th & 18th Centuries, never found any proper documentry evidence to support it. What little of the so called Mary Hoyle well is under large stone slab, if you lift it you can hear water flowing, but can't see anything
Retlaw.