Description:White's Directory of Staffordshire, 1834 refers to a well at Tean: "here is a well supposed to be efficacious as a remedy for sore eyes." Francis Redfern's History of Uttoxeter, 1886 has a reference to a garden at Over Tean belonging to Major Ashby where in 1728 there was "Willy Wall Well ...which exists on the west side of the Tean Brook, almost opposite to Hall Green".
Earlier, an entry in Robert Plot's "Natural History of Staffordshire", 1686 mentions a well "which rising very plentifully from under a rock in the ground of Mr. Tho. Wood between Over and Nether Tene, on the west side of the river, and called the Well in the Wall, produces all the year round, except in July and August small bones (as the people will have it) of young sparrows or very young chicken". Plot investigated this report and concluded that they were actually frogs' bones.
Research and information by Jim Foley.