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Sutton Park history - Druids Well near Bracebridge Pool

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tonyoz777

proper brummie kid
Can anyone help with some directions as to how to find the Druids Well at Bracebridge. I was up there with the kids on Sunday and we couldn't find it anywhere - none of the park maps I've seen seem to make it very clear as to where exactly it is. We walked down the roadway to the restaurant and then followed the path to the right which skirts the edge of the pool - the path with the little wooden bridges.

Anyone any ideas ??

Thanks
 
Tony, Dave M is the person to ask. Look at the first thread to Sutton Park started by him. I will send him a message and am sure he will oblige. Jean.
 
Found it and confirmed by a ranger, pics and directions in time, kettle on, Thanks GG Dave
 
Druids Well from Bracebridge Pool there are two paths, as in the pics, take either path, after a very short walk, the two paths meet, within feet as in the pic with the larger tree, go left, not on a marked path, Druids Well should soon appear, in pic others to follow.
 
My first visit to the Druids Well, just off the pathways, but hidden,
the mesh structure to the right of the well, would have stood upright in the past, might be connected to (recent) Druids,
 
Dave can you get to it throught the gate at the back of the Parson?. I think that's where you said before. Jean.
 
Sorry Dave I do get things mixed up shouln't have been so idle and gone back to the begining of the thread. Jean.
 
Many many thanks for your help Dave M and GG Jean

The kids will be chuffed with my "magical powers" in finding it now


Cheers

TonyOz
 
hi dave..many thanks for the pics and directions...i shall go a hunting for it...

lyn
 
just to let you know that we found the well okay last weekend. very grateful to both Dave M and GG Jean for your help

the kids (6yr old and 3yr old) found it quite magical - a good way for them to spend the morning off the computer games by going out into the real world for a mini adventure.

thanks again
 
Druids Well May 2009
 

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It did in deed have a sort of dog kennel over it, made from stone. It was smashed up may years ago be some vandals; whoever did it went to a great deal of effort and must have took a lump hammer to it. Real shame, it was several hundred yeas old.

I recall the council took the bits away and something temporary was built, but it looks like that's gone too.
 
Thanks - I found Druids Well Sunday, I also had an old Sutton Park booklet with a map to help.
If you didnt know roughly where the Well was you would never find it.

Next to the Well is another small Well type brick construction - towards the lake side -
I'm guessing this is a water outlet circa 1970's odd.
 
Stephen0002002 said:
Thanks - I found Druids Well Sunday, I also had an old Sutton Park booklet with a map to help.
If you didnt know roughly where the Well was you would never find it.

Next to the Well is another small Well type brick construction - towards the lake side -
I'm guessing this is a water outlet circa 1970's odd.
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Glad you found it, as you say Well hidden
 
“No one really knows why it came to be called “Druid’s Well”, and it’s unlikely to have any genuine druidic connection. One local-history-derived account puts it bluntly: the name’s origin is unknown and it “can have no Druidical connection”
(Holy and Healing Wells)
 
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