Well Known As the Spewing Duck is a Grade II listed building in the Rossendale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1984. Public well.
Well Known As the Spewing Duck
- WRENN ID
- solitary-foundation-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rossendale
- Constituency
- Rossendale and Darwen MP: Andy MacNae (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 November 1984
- Type
- Public well
- Address
- Well Known As the Spewing Duck, Goodshaw Fold
- OS grid reference
- SD 807 266
- Coordinates
- 53.7361, -2.29295
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Spewing Duck is a public well of spring water located in Goodshaw Fold, Rawtenstall, and was constructed in 1855 to replace an earlier well. The well is made of stone and features a rectangular stone tank. It has a restored rectangular stone reredos with a carved head, which replaces the original "Celtic" head, and this head issues spring water through a pipe into a semi-circular bowl below. The structure is topped with a solid triangular lintel that bears the inscription: "ERECTED/BY/SUBSCRIPTION BY THE/INHABITANTS/and the/EXORS OF THE LATE/JOHN HARGREAVES ESQ A.D. 1855". The name "Spewing Duck" comes from the previous well, which had a curved pipe resembling a duck's neck, and the water flow was irregular, coming in fits and starts.
Local climate
Well Known As the Spewing Duck sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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