Emma's Well and Memorial Stone is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. Well.

Emma's Well and Memorial Stone

WRENN ID
forgotten-steel-sorrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Hertfordshire
Constituency
Broxbourne MP: Lewis Cocking (Con)
Country
England
Type
Well
Address
Emma's Well and Memorial Stone, Amwell Hill, Great Amwell
OS grid reference
TL 372 125
Coordinates
51.79501, -0.01157
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Emma's Well and Memorial Stone is a brick revetted basin that serves as the spring from which Amwell derives its name. This spring was one of the two sources for the New River constructed between 1609 and 1613, the other being Chadwell at Ware. The basin features 18th or 19th century buff brick revetment walls surrounding a D-shaped pool that includes an island, weir, sluice, and overflow, which likely reflect repairs and renewals of the original structure. The spring often runs dry now. On the slope between the road and the spring, there is an upright white stone memorial slab inscribed with verses from the poem 'Amwell' by the Quaker poet John Scott of Amwell, who lived from 1730 to 1783.

Local climate

Emma's Well and Memorial Stone sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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