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Madron Well, Cornwall: conservation and access works |
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Cornwall Council Historic Environment Service unpublished report series
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cornwall2-103407_1.pdf (17 MB)
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Publication Type: |
Report (in Series)
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Abstract: |
This report describes work undertaken in 2006, through the Historic Environment Service's Scheduled Monument Management Programme, to help alleviate a range of problems at Madron's holy well and chapel. This is a well-known site, attracting many visitors, but whose condition had deteriorated over the decade prior to work taking place. Aspects tackled as part of this project included: a poor parking area (muddy, rutted, puddles, litter bins, fly tipping), muddy access path, hampered for the less able by mud, puddles and a difficult stile, access to the holy well mostly under water, due to poor drainage, holy well stonework damaged, a damaged and unsightly interpretation at the chapel site, chapel subject to periodic vandalism, required some consolidation, chapel enclosure overgrown and untidy, chapel enclosure inaccessible to less-able people due to a stile, and degraded hedges at the chapel site. Part of the project involved some research to establish the causes of flooding in the area of the well - a problem which makes access difficult nowadays compared to the situation only twenty years ago - and found to be due to neglect of watercourses once Madron Well ceased to be a main supplier of water for Penzance and Madron Churchtown. |
Author: |
M Mossop
A Preston-Jones
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Publisher: |
Cornwall Archaeological Unit
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Other Person/Org: |
Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Historic Environment Record (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication: |
2007
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Locations: |
Site: |
Madron Well, Boswarthen, Madron, Cornwall |
Parish: |
MADRON |
District: |
Cornwall |
County: |
Cornwall |
Country: |
England |
Grid Reference: 144650, 32800 (Easting, Northing)
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Grid Reference: 144558, 32749 (Easting, Northing)
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OASIS Id: |
cornwall2-103407 |
OBIB: |
2007R035 |
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A4, white card covers, black plastic binding
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Created Date: |
24 Nov 2016 |