Near (to moat, M2560) is what is called Robin Hood's Well - a receptacle without any water. The present structure is decidely modern but it may have been a well at one time from which the outlaw drank - or it may not. (1)

The "well" comprises a shallow trough of dry-laid masonry c 2.5m by 1.5m, fed by a spring from a small sand face exposed on its S side. The trough contains a little stagnant water and the spring may now have failed (said locally to be due to underlying mining). A tree has fallen across the "well", there are remains of iron railings and other fencing. No suggestion can be made as to the date of the well. Called "Friar Tuck's Well". (2)

Now overgrown and neglected. Dry and non-dateable. (3)

Friar Tuck's Well. Well head. Early C19 and C20. Ashlar and red brick. Shaped and moulded 6 stepped ashlar water course surmounted by a single ashlar trough with low red brick walls behind flanking the spring outlet. (4)

See M2560 for associated moat.

Listed Buildings Slides, (Photograph). SNT2648.

OS, 1887, 6in 1887 (Map). SNT1059.

OS, 1914-38, 6in 1914-38 (Map). SNT1061.

Nicola Toop, 2014, Fountain Dale: Understanding the Site and Statement of Significance (Unpublished document). SNT6366.

Historic England, 2021, National Record of Historic Environment (Digital archive). SNT5271.

<1> Groves WH, 1894, History of Mansfield, pp 90 - (Published document). SNT733.

<2> Woodhouse WC, 1959, Pers Comm (Personal comment). SNT1437.

<3> Seaman BH, 1974, Pers Comm (Personal comment). SNT1252.

<4> DOE, 1986, Dist of Newark (Listed Buildings) (Unpublished document). SNT6367.