Well is a small estate village and civil parish about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) south of the town of Alford, in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England.
[citation needed] The parish church is dedicated to Saint Margaret, and was built of red brick in 1733 around the same time as Well Vale House.
[6] The National Heritage List for England calls it Well Vale Park, and describes it as a former red brick country house, now a private school, which is Grade II* listed, dating from the early 17th century, altered about 1730 for James Bateman, and extended in the late 18th century for Francis Dashwood.
[7] Thomas Allen, in his The History of the County of Lincoln, From the Earliest Period to the Present Time, wrote: The village of Well is delightfully in a romantic valley at the distance of about two miles south westward from Alford.
The living of Well is rated in the king's books at 7 2s 3 d Near this place in 1725 two urns containing six hundred Roman coins were found in the neighbourhood are three celticbarrows contiguous to each other.