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searchaux" style="display:none">English tradition of decorating wells</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Well_Dressing_Tissington_Derbyshire_UK_2007.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Well_Dressing_Tissington_Derbyshire_UK_2007.jpg/220px-Well_Dressing_Tissington_Derbyshire_UK_2007.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Well_Dressing_Tissington_Derbyshire_UK_2007.jpg/330px-Well_Dressing_Tissington_Derbyshire_UK_2007.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Well_Dressing_Tissington_Derbyshire_UK_2007.jpg/440px-Well_Dressing_Tissington_Derbyshire_UK_2007.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1944" data-file-height="2592" /></a><figcaption>Well dressing in <a href="/wiki/Tissington" title="Tissington">Tissington</a>, 2007</figcaption></figure> <p><b>Well dressing</b>, also known as <b>well flowering</b>, is a tradition practised in some parts of rural <a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a> in which wells, springs and other water sources are decorated with designs created from flower petals.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDitchfield1896186_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDitchfield1896186-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The custom is most closely associated with the <a href="/wiki/Peak_District" title="Peak District">Peak District</a> of <a href="/wiki/Derbyshire" title="Derbyshire">Derbyshire</a> and <a href="/wiki/Staffordshire" title="Staffordshire">Staffordshire</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDitchfield1896184,_186,_188_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDitchfield1896184,_186,_188-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> James Murray Mackinlay, writing in 1893, noted that the tradition was not observed in <a href="/wiki/Scotland" title="Scotland">Scotland</a>; W. 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Cordner, in 1946, similarly noted its absence in <a href="/wiki/Ireland" title="Ireland">Ireland</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMackinlay1893206,_212_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMackinlay1893206,_212-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECordner194633_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECordner194633-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Both Scotland and Ireland do have a long history of the veneration of wells, however, dating from at least the 6th century.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECordner194625-26_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECordner194625-26-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMooreTerry1894215–216_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMooreTerry1894215–216-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The custom of well dressing in its present form probably began in the late 18th century, and evolved from "the more widespread, but less picturesque" decoration of wells with ribbons and simple floral garlands.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJewitt186340_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJewitt186340-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESimpsonRoud2000385_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESimpsonRoud2000385-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Well_dressing&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The location identified most closely with well dressing is <a href="/wiki/Tissington" title="Tissington">Tissington</a>,<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. 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It has been speculated that it began as a pagan custom of offering thanks to gods for a reliable water supply; other suggested explanations include villagers celebrating the purity of their water supply after surviving the <a href="/wiki/Black_Death" title="Black Death">Black Death</a> in 1348, or alternatively celebrating their water's constancy during a prolonged drought in 1615.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChristian1976206–207_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChristian1976206–207-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The practice of well dressing using clay boards at Tissington is not recorded before 1818, however, and the earliest record for the wells being adorned by simple garlands occurs in 1758.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEShirley2017653_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEShirley2017653-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Well_Dressing_Wirksworth_1860s.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Well_Dressing_Wirksworth_1860s.jpg/170px-Well_Dressing_Wirksworth_1860s.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="208" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Well_Dressing_Wirksworth_1860s.jpg/255px-Well_Dressing_Wirksworth_1860s.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Well_Dressing_Wirksworth_1860s.jpg/340px-Well_Dressing_Wirksworth_1860s.jpg 2x" data-file-width="450" data-file-height="550" /></a><figcaption>Well or tap dressing in <a href="/wiki/Wirksworth" title="Wirksworth">Wirksworth</a> in the 1860s.</figcaption></figure> <p>Well dressing was celebrated in at least 12 villages in Derbyshire by the late 19th century, and was introduced in <a href="/wiki/Buxton" title="Buxton">Buxton</a> in 1840, "to commemorate the beneficence of the Duke of Devonshire who, at his own expense, made arrangements for supplying the Upper Town, which had been much inconvenienced by the distance to St Anne's well on the Wye, with a fountain of excellent water within easy reach of all".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENorman1993138_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENorman1993138-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Similarly, well dressing was revived at this time in <a href="/wiki/Youlgreave" title="Youlgreave">Youlgreave</a>, to celebrate the supplying of water to the village "from a hill at some distance, by means of pipes laid under the stream of an intervening valley.".<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> With the arrival of piped water the tradition was adapted to include public taps, although the resulting creations were still described as well dressings. </p><p>The custom waxed and waned over the years, but has seen revivals in Derbyshire, Staffordshire, <a href="/wiki/South_Yorkshire" title="South Yorkshire">South Yorkshire</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cheshire" title="Cheshire">Cheshire</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shropshire" title="Shropshire">Shropshire</a>, <a href="/wiki/Worcestershire" title="Worcestershire">Worcestershire</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kent" title="Kent">Kent</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Process">Process</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Well_dressing&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Process"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Wooden frames are constructed and covered with <a href="/wiki/Clay" title="Clay">clay</a>, mixed with water and <a href="/wiki/Salt" title="Salt">salt</a>. A design is sketched on paper, often of a <a href="/wiki/Religious" class="mw-redirect" title="Religious">religious</a> theme, and this is traced onto the clay. The picture is then filled in with natural materials, predominantly flower petals and <a href="/wiki/Moss" title="Moss">mosses</a>, but also <a href="/wiki/Bean" title="Bean">beans</a>, <a href="/wiki/Seed" title="Seed">seeds</a> and small <a href="/wiki/Conifer_cone" title="Conifer cone">cones</a>. Each group uses its own technique, with some areas mandating that only natural materials be used while others feel free to use modern materials to simplify production. <a href="/wiki/Wirksworth" title="Wirksworth">Wirksworth</a> and <a href="/wiki/Barlow,_Derbyshire" title="Barlow, Derbyshire">Barlow</a> are two of the very few dressings where the strict use of only natural materials is still observed. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_literature">In literature</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Well_dressing&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: In literature"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/John_Brunner_(author)" title="John Brunner (author)">John Brunner</a>'s story "In the Season of the Dressing of the Wells" describes the revival of the custom in an English village of the <a href="/wiki/West_Country" title="West Country">West Country</a> after <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a>, and its connection to the <a href="/wiki/Goddess" title="Goddess">Goddess</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGreenberg1992106–150_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGreenberg1992106–150-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Jon_McGregor" title="Jon McGregor">Jon McGregor</a>'s novel <i><a href="/wiki/Reservoir_13" class="mw-redirect" title="Reservoir 13">Reservoir 13</a></i> is set in a village where well dressing is an annual event.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHadley2017_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHadley2017-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Well_dressing&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Clootie_well" title="Clootie well">Clootie well</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Osterbrunnen" title="Osterbrunnen">Osterbrunnen</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Well_dressing&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><b>Footnotes</b> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist 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class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFDitchfield1896">Ditchfield 1896</a>, p. 186.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEDitchfield1896184,_186,_188-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDitchfield1896184,_186,_188_2-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFDitchfield1896">Ditchfield 1896</a>, p. 184, 186, 188.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEMackinlay1893206,_212-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMackinlay1893206,_212_3-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMackinlay1893">Mackinlay 1893</a>, p. 206, 212.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTECordner194633-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECordner194633_4-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFCordner1946">Cordner 1946</a>, p. 33.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTECordner194625-26-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a 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