T'Awd Abba Well is a Grade II listed building in the North York Moors National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 July 1989. Wellhouse.

T'Awd Abba Well

WRENN ID
inner-slate-mist
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North York Moors National Park
Constituency
Scarborough and Whitby MP: Alison Hume (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 July 1989
Type
Wellhouse
Address
T'Awd Abba Well, Fylingdales, North Yorkshire
OS grid reference
NZ 936 068
Coordinates
54.44879, -0.55676
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

T'awd Abba Well, also known as The Old Boiling Well, is a wellhouse likely dating from the 18th century and restored in the 20th century. It is constructed of red brick in English garden wall bond and features a stone slab roof. The building has a rectangular plan and is a single storey with a gable end facing the road. At the rear, there is a 20th-century board door on 19th-century hinges. A plaque on the roadside gable end reads:

"T'awd Abba Well
(also known as The Old Boiling Well)
Lang centuries aback
This wor t'awd Abba well.
Saint Hilda, veiled i' black,
Lang centuries aback
Supped frey it, an no lack.
All t'Sisterhood as well.
Lang centuries aback
This wor t'awd Abba well."

Inside, the wellhouse covers a pool of water.

Local climate

T'Awd Abba Well receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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