Great Hucklow Well Dressing 2006

Well Dressing in Great Hucklow

Making the Well Dressing

How the Great Hucklow Well Dressing started

Well Dressing in Great Hucklow

Many villages in and around Derbyshire have a Well Dressing once a year as a thanksgiving for water. The local minister blesses the well.  Wells are usually built around the 'source of water' at a spring or a well.  On a board beside the well is a picture made of clay, flower petals, seed heads and moss, prepared by the village community.

The first Great Hucklow Well Dressing took place in 1987.  The picture showed "The Old Chapel" and was sited, as now, on the village green.  Great Hucklow introduced a Children's Well in 2004, now located in Dirty Lane near the Old Chapel.  The Great Hucklow Well Dressings are not built around a well as access around the local wells would be too dangerous.