Tewit Well

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.

In 1571,[2] 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.

In 1842, the structure designed by Thomas Chippendale in 1807[3] 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.

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