Holy Well, Humphrey Head

Holy Well, Humphrey Head, Allithwaite, Cumbria.
Now just a trickle dripping out from a pipe, the waters from this ancient well were drunk by lead miners from Roman times to remove the poisins from their bodies. In his 'Churches, Castles, and Ancient Halls of North Lancashire', W.O. Roper writes, “One other appendage to the Priory of Cartmel should be mentioned, and that is the well known as the Holy Well. On the sea-shore, close under the towering cliffs of Humphrey Head, and almost immediately below the natural arch of rock which leads to the recess known as the Fairy Chapel, bubbles the well to which in former days the Priors journeyed in state from their neighbouring Priory, and to which in more recent times large numbers of people resorted, hoping to derive benefit from its medicinal qualities.”