Hi Surrey thanks for the message I do know of the well its described by Jonathan Sant who wrote Healing wells of Herefordshire in 1994. If you dont have what it describes be happy to transcribe mind you its not much..books difficult to find. Coincidentally I was nearby last Easter and was planning to find by was unaware whether it was accessible. I would be interested having a look are you planning to restore it?

Hi thanks for the interest. I’ll see if I have a copy. All the best

Hi thanks for the note it is in the Holy well and healing springs of Huntingdoneshire this is what it says in the book St. Ives’ Well (TL 305 725) is the most noted mediaeval well although despite its
importance to the settlement named after it, it is largely forgotten. Goscelin of SaintBertin notes in his Miracles of St Ive tells how a farmworker, ploughing at Slepe (in
1002), uncovered a sarcophagus, this was probably the remains of a Roman, but he
was told that it was body of St Ivo in a dream. When the body was removed to
Ramsey Abbey a spring rose where the sarcophagus lay. It is said that the:
“water of St Ive’s Well which rose in the very place where his holy body had
lain, and offered health-giving draughts to those parched by fever”.
According to later section of the Miracles (tr. Migne 1844–80):
“..a spring of sweet water bubbled up from the tomb, and from it there flowed a river
that made glad the City of God, which is to say, the faithful. What could be more
fitting than that this should appear at the tomb of this saint! For it was from the
goodness of his inner heart, while he lived, that the streams of living water and the
fountain of eternal life flowed out to teach and help everyone’.
A number of miracles are recorded. One tells how a women travelled from
Canterbury and was on vigil at his tomb and drank from the holy well and was thus
cured. The well was a notable cure for dropsy: William of Malmesbury in the 1120s
notes how a monk was told to visit the shrine in a dream and was cured of the dropsy
and the 14th century Life of St Ive tells how two lepers, three blind men and three
men with dropsy were cured at the well. Another story tells how a boy told to get
water from the market got it from the well and found it could not boil. The well’s
water would protect against evil forces: a woman, after taking a hare for her lover
(said to be the devil in disguise), repented and carried a well water in a bottle for her
protection and how a woman threw up a snake, she swallowed accidentally whilst
sleeping after haymaking, and that after drinking from the well and standing before
the altar! It is recorded that Abbott Ednoth rebuilt the church in honour of St Ive in
such a way ‘that his tomb, the source of so many virtues, lay partly inside the wall,
and partly outside. This meant that whenever people came, whether the church doors
were open or closed, they would never be cut off from the stream of grace. And God,
that God who once made the water flow from the living rock, has continued to work
wonders through his saints. Despite a number of legends nothing appears recorded
of its location or fate, suggesting the well fell out of favour early in the mediaeval
period and indeed the story of a women from Canterbury suggests that this legend
may have been in direct competition with this shrine.

Hope that helps.

Hi apologies for the delay in replying. I shall send you a private message via email. Where are you based exactly I can check over my records? All the best

Hi Samia thanks for the message. I would indeed be very interested in what has been done. Perhaps you would like to do a blog post on it? I did a piece for Cambridgeshire radio once on the site be interested to see if anyone ever recorded it…I unfortunately didnt!