Gumfreyston Wells is a Grade II listed building in the Pembrokeshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 1 August 1996. Natural springs.
Gumfreyston Wells
- WRENN ID
- gentle-steel-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Constituency
- Mid and South Pembrokeshire MP: Henry Tufnell (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 1 August 1996
- Type
- Natural springs
- Address
- Gumfreyston Wells, Tenby, St. Florence
- OS grid reference
- SN 109 010
- Coordinates
- 51.67666, -4.73601
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Gumfreyston Wells is a group of natural springs featuring carefully formed stonework around each well. There are three shallow wells, whose water flows together into one stream that exits the churchyard to the south. The stonework simply confines the wells and the channel through which the water runs; there is no superstructure. The water from the well closest to the church was described by Gosse as pure spring-water, while the other two are of chalybeate type, meaning they are impregnated with iron and are exceptionally soft and naturally sparkling, with red sediment and occasional eruptions of gas.
Local climate
Gumfreyston Wells sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,210 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 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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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