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Stanger Spa, Embleton
Stanger Spa
Holy Well
locality:-   Stanger
civil parish:-   Embleton (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   spa
locality type:-   well
locality type:-   spring
locality type:-   holy well
coordinates:-   NY14112718
1Km square:-   NY1427
10Km square:-   NY12


photograph
BVK01.jpg  courtesy of Ed Henderson
photograph
BVK02.jpg  courtesy of Ed Henderson
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BVK03.jpg  Plaque.
 courtesy of Ed Henderson
The water is very saline, its conductance read at 40,000 microSiemen. The well at Manesty read 27,000 microSiemen; most wells are only a few hundred microSiemen; sea water is about 50 to 60,000 microSiemen.
The well has been dedicated to St Anna. In the mid 1800s a doctor sold water from this well at 6d (5p) a bottle.

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 55 9) 
placename:-  Stanger Spa
item:-  saline spring
source data:-   Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948.
"Stanger Spa (Saline)"

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