bluebell woods

stutterdog · Post by **stutterdog** » Tue 17 May, 2011 8:59 pm

fell runner wrote: I run regularly in Adel Woods and the Meanwood Valley trail, never noticed that many really. Best display I've seen is in Middleton woods ( Ilkley not LS10 ! )Where is this ' slavering baby' thing ?? never noticed it, is it near Adel Crag ?Found the old war bunkers o.k. last week just off Stairfoot Lane When I visited Adel wood way back ,as I've said, the Slavering Baby was easily visible. It was a stone carved into the shape of a baby's head and water came out of it's mouth from a spring.As I recall the sculpture was set in an arch and water ran into a stone bowl and there were cups attached with chains and I think you could drink from the spring water then. But that was 60yrs ago,you would be lucky to spot it these days.

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Tue 17 May, 2011 9:30 pm

fell runner wrote: I run regularly in Adel Woods and the Meanwood Valley trail, never noticed that many really. Best display I've seen is in Middleton woods ( Ilkley not LS10 ! )Where is this ' slavering baby' thing ?? never noticed it, is it near Adel Crag ?Found the old war bunkers o.k. last week just off Stairfoot Lane Hi fell runner. The following may help you find the Slavering/Slabbering/Babbling Baby spring (it seems to have several spellings/names). Water used to run out of it up to two or three years back but only does now (and then not much) after very wet weather. The water now drains out of the ground to the left as you look at the spring.Go along Buckstone Road (on the opposite side to the derilict Alwodley Motors garage on King Lane) and just where the road curves left go onto a track at the side of an house. Go through a metal gate and continue on the track. The spring will be obvious on the left in a couple of minutes walk. If coming from Adel follow a narrow track leading from Spring Hill (?) cottages and cross Adel Beck over a wooden footbridge (take care as this was falling into disrepair when I was there recently). Walk up the path and the spring is very soon reached.It is more difficult to give easy directions from the car park on Stairfoot Lane to get to the spring. I hope this helps.

Steve Jones · Post by **Steve Jones** » Wed 18 May, 2011 10:16 pm

check the Holy Wells & spas thread for lots of info on the Slavering/Slabbering baby Well and others.

fell runner · Post by **fell runner** » Thu 19 May, 2011 5:08 pm

thanks guys, I'm running the Meanwood Valley Trail race next week and I think I have the location now sussed.I'll hopefully be running so fast in the race I won't notice it , but I will re-trace my steps afterwards and have a look.

adelwoods · Post by **adelwoods** » Sun 26 Feb, 2012 1:10 am

Leodian wrote: Talking of the Slavering/Slabbering/Babbling Baby spring there is here (hopefully!) a photo that I took of it on May 3rd 2011. Edit added moments after posting. Clicking on the red cross brings up the image. I was very surpised that it appears at all as when I tried to post I got a message "A generic error occurred in GDI+. Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code." !!!! Heres a picture I took on my last visit. I remember it as being half way up a fairly high wall in the early 50's