St Helen's Well - Little Ribston
(SE 3750 5173)

This spring is located in a small wood near the North Deighton to Spofforth road. The 1850's O.S. map marks a St Helen's well at the edge of the wood, but it is not named on modern maps, perhaps because the spring had been utilised for a local water supply.
Originally this strong spring would have emerged at the foot of a low bank and then formed a stream which flowed into the nearby Crimple Beck. However in the past a small brick shed (just visible in the photo background) has been built against the banking in order to divert some of the water to another location.

Time has passed and the shed and pump are now derelict, the surrounding woodland has become overgrown and the St Helen's spring has broken out again, this time in front of the pump house. Someone (?) has arranged a few stones around where the water emerges before it flows away supporting a lush carpet of green vegetation.

No other information about this well at present.