well on Pendle

[churchfcrules]

has anyone ever used the well on pendle hill?

apperantley there is a well on pendle, it is covered and you can open it and there is a pewter tankard on a chain.

the well was name robin hoods well/ robin goodfellows well, and as also been named foxes well, after george fox founder of the quaker movement who apperantley had his epiphany on pendle hill, and formed the quaker movement after coming back down

i have found the grid reference, and plan to take a trip up next week and try and find it, and get some pics, just curious if anyone knows anything about it

also the site used to be marked with some kind of cross but, that now resides in whalley church.

[wadey]

Sorry but I've never heard of this, keep us posted

[MargaretR]

When I lived in Higham (I married into a family of long term Highamers), the local knowledge about Pendle Hill included the warning that the hill had never been completely cleared from unexploded bombs from WW2, and it was inadvisable to wander off well trodden paths.

[churchfcrules]

Originally Posted by MargaretR

When I lived in Higham (I married into a family of long term Highamers), the local knowledge about Pendle Hill included the warning that the hill had never been completely cleared from unexploded bombs from WW2, and it was inadvisable to wander off well trodden paths.

i am always wandering off the path wherever i go, lol its the rebel in me, cant help myself

just my luck when i get my little shovel out to do my business BOOM!!!!

[cashman]

Never heard of the well, used to go up yon in 60s halloween looking fer witches, daft really there was loads in accy. Mind was more interested in the Pendle Witch n Wellsprings, can only assume it was somewhere near the latter?

[churchfcrules]

Originally Posted by cashman

Never heard of the well, used to go up yon in 60s halloween looking fer witches, daft really there was loads in accy. Mind was more interested in the Pendle Witch n Wellsprings, can only assume it was somewhere near the latter?

actually cashy its nowhere near wellsprings, well not according to the map anyroads more on the Barley side

[cashman]

Originally Posted by churchfcrules

actually cashy its nowhere near wellsprings, well not according to the map anyroads more on the Barley side

Ah well glad i never had a bet on it.

[churchfcrules]

This well was once dedicated to the Blessed Virgin and a round-headed stone cross stood above the well. The head of this cross now sits above the sedilia in Whalley Parish Church.

No doubt the origin of veneration to this sacred spring goes back to pre-xtian times.

This well is also known as Robin Goodfellow’s Well. ‘Robin Goodfellow, His Mad Pranks & Merry Jests,’ was published in 1639, and was fondly recounted by members of the ‘new’ local gentry/Masonic mafia.

Robin is depicted as an ithyphallic god of the witches with young ram’s horns sprouting from his forehead, ram’s legs, a witches’ besom over his left shoulder, a lighted candle in his right hand. Behind him in a ring dance a coven of part naked witches in Puritan costume, a black dog venerates him, a minstrel plays a horn and an owl flies overhead.

It was at this time when the ancient Marian Holy Well on the east flank of Pendle was renamed Robin Goodfellow’s Well (much later it became known as Robin Hood’s Well) by the new landholders. This was done not only out of jest but out of pure hatred for the Old Roman Faith, that still held firm in most quarters of Lancashire, and up-and-coming dissenters to State Faith. The Masonic Mafia of that time doubtlessly remembered too the perjury they had committed against Alice Nutter a Catholic Gentlewoman in her eighties, mother of Robert and John Nutter, both Roman Catholic priests who faced martyrdom without fear and with free will.

George Fox, a man of the Inner Light, had his great vision on Pendle and later drank his fill from this well and went on to found the Society of Friends. The Quaker converts, who were many around Pendle, re-named the well to his memory. (taken from a post on a forum)

info i have found on it

[shillelagh]

i thought robin hoods well was in helmshore ... not on pendle ....

West Pennine Walks: 2nd Edition - Mike Cresswell - Google Books

[churchfcrules]

there well (see what i did there) may be more than one, i aim to discover the one on pendle next week, it may lead to further investigation and finding "your" well too!

[cashman]

Originally Posted by churchfcrules

there well (see what i did there) may be more than one, i aim to discover the one on pendle next week, it may lead to further investigation and finding "your" well too!

Well,Well.

[Gordon Booth]

Slightly off thread, there was a well known story when I was a lad that somewhere on Pendle was a gate between two fields through which no dog would go. All dogs would go frantic if taken anywhere near it. I 'knew someone who knew someone' who had tried it and swore they had to give up because their dog was going insane.
Anyone else heard that tale and even better tried it?
Never knew exactly where it was, just on the side of Pendle.

[cashman]

Never heard of that un Gordon, Perhaps came from a dingle that had had a few?

[churchfcrules]

i never heard of that one, but reminded me of the "prize for spending a night alone in the priest room at samlesbury hall" dont know if that had any truth to it

[Gordon Booth]

Originally Posted by cashman

Never heard of that un Gordon, Perhaps came from a dingle that had had a few?

Wash your mouth out. I never mixed with dingles!