{{Short description|Well and pavilion in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Use British English|date=December 2024}} thumb|right|Tewit Well on The Stray '''Tewit Well''', also known in its early days as "Tuit" or "Tuewhit", is a spa water well, the first chalybeate source discovered in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England.<ref name="Spadacrene Anglica"/>
==History== After marrying Elizabeth Broad, William Slingsby (uncle of Sir William Slingsby)<ref name="Spadacrene Anglica">{{cite web | editor-first=James |editor-last=Rutherford |editor2-first=Alex |editor2-last=Butler | url=https://archive.org/details/spadacreneanglic00dean | title=Spadacrene Anglica or The English Spa Fountain | publisher=John Wright & Sons | work=SPADACRENE ANGLICA. or The English Spa Fountain. | date=1922 | accessdate=26 March 2015 | last=Deane|first= Edmund | page=9}}</ref> took his new wife on a Grand Tour of Europe. In 1571,<ref>Spadacrene Angelica dated 1626 Edmond Deane chapter 6</ref> Slingsby discovered that water from a well in Knaresborough Forest, now called The Stray, public parkland in Harrogate, possessed similar properties to that at Spa in Belgium. He named the well "Tewit", after a local word for peewit or lapwing, a bird which still frequently flocks on the Stray.
Tewit Well had fewer visitors than the wells in Low Harrogate, or even St John's Well in High Harrogate, because of its distance from Victorian hotels and lodging houses. In 1842, the structure designed by Thomas Chippendale in 1807<ref>{{NHLE|num=1293847|desc=Tewit Well|accessdate=3 December 2024}}</ref> enclosing the Royal Pump Room, which sits over the Old Sulphur Well, was replaced by a new structure designed by Isaac Shutt for the Improvement Commissioners. The old structure was then moved to Tewit Well.<ref name="Historic England">{{NHLE|num=1149478 |desc=ROYAL PUMP ROOM MUSEUM| accessdate=26 March 2015}}</ref>
==Description== The structure still stands on the edge of the Stray, known as Cherry Tree Walk as all the paths are lined on both sides with cherry trees. It is a Grade II* listed building.<ref name="Historic England"/> It carries Harrogate's first Brown Plaque, which was designed in part by Harrogate historian Malcolm Neesam in 1971.<ref name="The Stray Ferret 31 March 2022" >{{cite news |last1=Barrett |first1=Thomas |title=Harrogate Club honours local historian Malcolm Neesam |url=https://thestrayferret.co.uk/harrogate-club-honours-historian-malcolm-neesam-by-naming-room-after-him/ |access-date=25 September 2022 |work=The Stray Ferret |date=31 March 2022}}</ref>
==Local recognition== A local brass band, the Tewit Silver Band (and also its youth counterpart), is named after this landmark.{{Citation needed|date=March 2026}}
==See also== *Grade II* listed buildings in North Yorkshire (district) *Listed buildings in Harrogate (Stray Ward)
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==External links== {{Commons category-inline|Tewit Well}}
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Category:Buildings and structures in Harrogate Category:Tourist attractions in Harrogate Category:Springs of England Category:Grade II* listed buildings in North Yorkshire Category:Water wells in England