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Bottesford Preceptory

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Travellers would drink its waters and leave cloth offerings (a "rag well"). This healing property was probably associated with its position near a Templar hospital. The only distinctive Templar artefact found here was an ancient gravestone with a large cross upon it. It was covering a body buried in a grave that had been placed at the angle formed by the north wall of the chancel and the east wall of the north transept, though this description is inconsistent with a normal Templar round church.
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Templars Bath, a spring in the field behind Bottesford Manor, is now hardly discernible, being simply a gathering of stones. The bath has been attributed to the Romans but others believe it was a dipping bath or well used by the Templar workers. It was once used as a "magic" health-giving spring.
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Archaeologists excavated the Templar fields nearby in 1983, but little was found and the land was back-filled.
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limestone upland, and about the same distance to the east of the
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who lived on one of that order's estates in the charge of its
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Community of the Knights Templar in Lindsey, England
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A small stone building with wrought iron gates against a long stone wall. Huge yew trees overhang the wall, and a straggly bit of ivy clings to theside of the well house
A shallow depression in the grass with a stone lined pit in the centre. It is surrounded by railings with a small interpretation board next to the gate. Behind the shallow depression is an earth bank, and behind that a row of recent houses. A large leafless tree is on the left
Bottesford
Scunthorpe
Lindsey
Lincoln Cliff
River Trent
preceptory
Knights Templar
preceptor
Aslackby Preceptory
Kesteven
TF0830
Eagle
SK875672
Temple Bruer Preceptory
Witham Preceptory
SK928205
Willoughton Preceptory
SK923931
Lindsey
SE8907
Belton, North Lincolnshire
Grantham
Angel and Royal
Gainsborough, Lincolnshire
Great Limber
TA1308
Horkstow
SE9818

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