Pub history

The Prense Well

The Hessle Well was one of the village’s many wells. Hessle Well House’s boundary wall has a plaque stating that the well closed in 1891. Heswall was also served by the Pin Well, Lightfoot Well, Rosebank Well, Bank House Well and Far Well. The Penns, or Prense, Well seems to have been one of the main wells, on Telegraph Road, a stone’s throw from the former Exchange Bar, on what is now the Costa Coffee/Domino’s Pizza forecourt.