Event
23rd May 2025 - 26th May 2025
Chester Green Well Dressing
This ancient custom is unique to Derbyshire and is the art of decorating springs and wells with pictures made from natural materials.
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23rd May 2025 - 26th May 2025
Well Dressing is the art of decorating springs or wells with pictures made of natural products.
Chester Green Blessing is on May 23, TBA at the Marcus Street Well
Wells in the Making: May 20 to 22, various times in the studio of Waxbaby Productions, 108 Chester Green Road DE1 3SF. For more details please contact Caroline Astell-Burt 07762 264308
Note: The Vicarage Garden Well Dressing will be completed on site during the day of May 23
Dressings are expected on 2 sites in 2025:
1. Marcus Street Well a number of dressings at the well at the end of Marcus Street (take Old Chester Road from the junction of Alfreton Road and Mansfield Road next to the Coach and Horses pub. After about 50 yards, turn left along Centurion Walk).
2. Vicarage Garden Well at the well in the garden of the Vicarage on the north side of Old Chester Road
Chester Green is located on Mansfield Road, Derby, about 1.5km north of the City Centre.
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