Hands Well is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 1951. A Georgian Well.

Hands Well

WRENN ID
scarred-basalt-yarrow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Peak District National Park
Constituency
Derbyshire Dales MP: John Whitby (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 February 1951
Type
Well
Period
Georgian
Address
Hands Well, Rakes Lane, Tissington and Lea Hall, Derbyshire Dales
OS grid reference
SK 174 524
Coordinates
53.06936, -1.74136
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Hands Well is an 18th-century well located in Tissington on Rakes Lane, positioned in front of Overfields Farm. It features a gritstone oval basin that is set into the wall. The pedestal of the well tapers in the middle and widens at the base.

Local climate

Hands Well receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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