Chapel Well?

on the River Lyvennet, nr Kings Meaburn

I had intended to walk at Haweswater but it was heaving and so abandoned the idea and headed over to my friend's and enjoyed the lovely sunshine in their garden and borrowed their map to get a fix on a nearby well which I had considered tracking down. 

As usual, it's another well mystery ... there was a chapel here but there's no sign of it. I asked the few people that I saw but they looked at me as though I wasn't quite the full shilling. The main indicator of this being a place of significance was the bridge (extra) and I'm not sure this is the well but it was in the right vicinity. 
Ho, hum... the ways of the well hunter are never smooth.

The Day is Done - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The day is done, and the darkness 
      Falls from the wings of Night, 
As a feather is wafted downward 
      From an eagle in his flight. 

I see the lights of the village 
      Gleam through the rain and the mist, 
And a feeling of sadness comes o'er me 
      That my soul cannot resist: 

A feeling of sadness and longing, 
      That is not akin to pain, 
And resembles sorrow only 
      As the mist resembles the rain. 

Come, read to me some poem, 
      Some simple and heartfelt lay, 
That shall soothe this restless feeling, 
      And banish the thoughts of day. 

Not from the grand old masters, 
      Not from the bards sublime, 
Whose distant footsteps echo 
      Through the corridors of Time. 

For, like strains of martial music, 
      Their mighty thoughts suggest 
Life's endless toil and endeavor; 
      And to-night I long for rest. 

Read from some humbler poet, 
      Whose songs gushed from his heart, 
As showers from the clouds of summer, 
      Or tears from the eyelids start; 

Who, through long days of labor, 
      And nights devoid of ease, 
Still heard in his soul the music 
      Of wonderful melodies. 

Such songs have power to quiet 
      The restless pulse of care, 
And come like the benediction 
      That follows after prayer. 

Then read from the treasured volume 
      The poem of thy choice, 
And lend to the rhyme of the poet 
      The beauty of thy voice. 

And the night shall be filled with music, 
      And the cares, that infest the day, 
Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, 
      And as silently steal away. 

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