2025 Well Dressing: Saturday 26 July – Saturday 2 August
Welcome to the Stoney Middleton Well Dressing website. We aim to maintain & promote the custom of Well Dressing for present & future generations. Our Well Dressing Week incorporates a week of varied activities for all ages, these include a treasure hunt, model boat race, quizzes, brass band, children’s events, sports events & fell race to name but a few.
Profits from Well Dressing Week are ploughed back into the village community. For 2025 we invite any local group to apply for a grant.
Stoney Middleton Well Dressing was started in 1936 by Ted Shimwell and our well dressings consists of 3 wells.
- Main Well Dressing: on The Nook, near St Martin’s Church.
- Children’s Well Dressing at the entrance to a house on The Nook, next to the Main Well Dressing.
- Bath House Gardens Well Dressing: Follow the Nook around to the spring near the old Roman Baths.
2024 Wells
2023 Wells
