Wells most commonly refers to: *

Wells, Somerset Wells () is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city and civil parishes in England, civil parish in Somerset, located on the southern edge of the Mendip Hills, south-east of Weston-super-Mare, south-west of Bath, Somerset, Bath a ...

, a cathedral city in Somerset, England *

Well A well is an excavation or structure created on the earth by digging, driving, or drilling to access liquid resources, usually water. The oldest and most common kind of well is a water well, to access groundwater in underground aquifers. The ...

, an excavation or structure created in the ground *

Wells (name) Wells is an English habitational surname but is possibly also from an old English word for Wales. It normally derives from occupation, location, and topography. The occupational name (i.e. "Wellman") derives from the person responsible for a vil ...

Wells may also refer to:

Places

Canada

Wells, British Columbia Wells is a small mining and tourist town in the Cariboo District of central British Columbia, located on BC Highway 26, from Quesnel and before the highway's terminus at Barkerville. It gains much of its revenue and jobs from tourists who ...

England

Wells (Priory Road) railway station Wells (Priory Road) was a railway station on the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway at Wells in the county of Somerset in England. Opening on 15 March 1859 as Wells, on the Somerset Central Railway, at that time a broad-gauge line operated by ...

was a railway station in Wells, Somerset *

Wells (Tucker Street) railway station Wells (Tucker Street) railway station was the second terminus station on the Bristol and Exeter Railway's Cheddar Valley line in Somerset after the extension from the first terminus at Cheddar was opened. It was the third station on the third ...

was a railway station in Wells, Somerset *

Wells (UK Parliament constituency) Wells most commonly refers to: * Wells, Somerset, a cathedral city in Somerset, England * Well, an excavation or structure created in the ground * Wells (name) Wells may also refer to: Places Canada *Wells, British Columbia England * Wells ( ...

, the UK parliamentary constituency in which the city of Wells, Somerset, is located *

Wells-next-the-Sea Wells-next-the-Sea is a port town on the north coast of Norfolk, England. The civil parish has an area of and in 2001 had a population of 2,451,Office for National Statistics & Norfolk County Council (2001). Census population and household c ...

, town and port in Norfolk **

Wells-on-Sea railway station Wells-next-the-Sea was a railway station that served the port town of Wells-next-the-Sea, in North Norfolk, England. It was opened in 1857 by the Wells & Fakenham Railway, later part of the Great Eastern Railway's Wymondham to Wells branch, and ...

was a railway station in Wells-next-the-Sea

Scotland

* Wells,

Roxburghshire Roxburghshire or the County of Roxburgh () is a historic county and registration county in the Southern Uplands of Scotland. It borders Dumfriesshire to the west, Selkirkshire and Midlothian to the northwest, and Berwickshire to the north. T ...

, a Scottish barony

United States

*Wells, California, former name of

Keene, California Keene (formerly Wells) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Kern County, California in the foothills of the Tehachapi Mountains at the southern extreme of the San Joaquin Valley. Keene is located northwest of Tehachapi, at an elevation of . Th ...

* Wells Peak * Wells, Indiana * Wells, Kansas *

Wells, Maine Wells is a town in York County, Maine, United States. Founded in 1643, it is the third-oldest town in Maine. The population was 11,314 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Wells Beach is a popular summer destination. History Edmund ...

Wells, Minnesota Wells is a city in Faribault County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 2,343 at the 2010 census. History Wells was laid out in 1869. The city was named for J.W. Wells, father in law of Clark W. Thompson. The city contains a prop ...

Wells, Mississippi Wells is an unincorporated community in Lowndes County, Mississippi. Wells is located north of Columbus. According to the United States Geological Survey The United States Geological Survey (USGS), founded as the Geological Survey, is an ...

Wells, Nevada Wells is a small city in Elko County, in northeast Nevada in the western United States. The population was 1,292 at the 2010 census. Wells is located at the junction of Interstate 80 and U.S. Route 93, approximately east of Elko and is par ...

Wells, New York Wells is a town in Hamilton County, New York, United States. The population was 674 at the 2010 census. The town is named after Joshua Wells, a land agent, who built the first mills in the area. It is in the Adirondack Park and on the eastern bor ...

, a town ** Wells (CDP), New York, a census-designated place in the town *

Wells, Texas Wells is a town in Cherokee County, Texas, United States. The population was 790 at the 2010 census, and 853 at the 2020 U.S. census. History Wells is at the junction of U.S. Highway 69 and Farm to Market Road 1247, twenty-three miles south ...

Wells, Vermont Wells is a town in Rutland County, Vermont, United States. As of the 2020 census, the town had a total population of 1,214. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , of which is land and , or 3.42% ...

, a New England town **

Wells (CDP), Vermont Wells is the central village and a census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Wells, Rutland County, Vermont, United States. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 386, out of 1,214 in the entire town. The CDP is in southwestern Rutla ...

, the main village in the town *

Wells, West Virginia Wells was an unincorporated community in Marshall County, West Virginia West Virginia is a mountainous U.S. state, state in the Southern United States, Southern and Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.Th ...

Wells, Wisconsin Wells is a town in Monroe County, Wisconsin. The population was 529 at the time of the 2000 census. The unincorporated community of Farmers Valley is located partially in the town. The town was named for James Wells, a prominent early settler ...

, a town *

Wells, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin Wells is an unincorporated community in the town of Rantoul, Calumet County and the town of Rockland, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin Wisconsin ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Great Lakes region, Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest ...

, an unincorporated community *

Wells County (disambiguation) Wells County is the name of two counties in the United States: * Wells County, Indiana * Wells County, North Dakota Wells County is a County (United States), county in the U.S. state of North Dakota. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 cens ...

Wells Island Wells Island is a bar island in Tyler County, West Virginia on the Ohio River The Ohio River () is a river in the United States. It is located at the boundary of the Midwestern and Southern United States, flowing in a southwesterly directio ...

, West Virginia *

Wells Township (disambiguation) Wells Township may refer to the following places: * Wells Township, Appanoose County, Iowa * Wells Township, Marshall County, Kansas * Wells Township, Delta County, Michigan * Wells Township, Marquette County, Michigan * Wells Township, Tusco ...

People

Wells baronets There have been three baronetcies created for persons with the surname Wells, all in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. Two of the creations are extinct. *The Wells baronetcy of Upper Grosvenor Street in the County of London, was created in th ...

, a member of the Order of Baronets with the surname Wells *

Bishop of Bath and Wells The Bishop of Bath and Wells heads the Church of England Diocese of Bath and Wells in the Province of Canterbury in England. The present diocese covers the overwhelmingly greater part of the (ceremonial) county of Somerset and a small area of D ...

Other uses

Charles Wells Ltd Wells & Co. (formerly Charles Wells Ltd) is the holding company of the Charles Wells Brewery and Pub Company (a pub chain). Charles Wells Ltd was founded in 1876 by Charles Wells (brewer), Charles Wells in Bedford, England. The Charles Wells Pub ...

, a vertically integrated British regional brewer * HMS ''Wells'' (I95), a British naval fighting ship * Struell Wells, a set of four holy wells in Struell, Northern Ireland *

Wells and Fakenham Railway The Wells & Fakenham Railway, was the northern part of the Wymondham to Wells branch in Norfolk, England. It connected the market town of Fakenham to the coast at Wells-next-the-Sea. It closed to passenger traffic in 1964 and to goods traffic ...

was a railway line in Norfolk, England *

Wells Cathedral Wells Cathedral, formally the , is a Church of England cathedral in Wells, Somerset, England. It is the seat of the bishop of Bath and Wells and the mother church of the diocese of Bath and Wells. There are daily Church of England services in ...

, in Wells, Somerset *

Wells City F.C. Wells City F.C. are a football club based in Wells, Somerset, Wells, Somerset, England. The club is affiliated to the Somerset County FA. They are currently members of the and play at the Athletic Ground. History They joined the Western Footba ...

, a football club based in Wells, Somerset *

Wells College Wells College was a private liberal arts college in Aurora, New York, a village in the Finger Lakes region of the state. From its founding in 1868 until it became coeducational in 2005, Wells was a women's college. The college maintained acad ...

, a liberal arts college in New York *

Wells Fargo Wells Fargo & Company is an American multinational financial services company with a significant global presence. The company operates in 35 countries and serves over 70 million customers worldwide. It is a systemically important fi ...

, an American bank *

Wells light A Wells light was a large paraffin-fuelled (kerosene) blowlamp used for engineering work, particularly for illumination, in Victorian times. At a time before widespread electrical lighting, they were the most common form of high-powered portable il ...

, a large oil-fuelled blowlamp *

Wells notice A Wells notice is a letter that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) sends to people or firms at the conclusion of an SEC investigation that states the SEC is planning to bring an enforcement action against them. The notice informs t ...

, a notification of enforcement by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission *

Wells Regional Transportation Center Wells Regional Transportation Center is an Amtrak train station in Wells, Maine. The station sits next to the Pan Am Railways mainline, formerly the Western Route mainline of the Boston and Maine Railroad The Boston and Maine Railroad was ...

is a train and bus station in Wells, Maine * Wells score, one of two prediction rules in clinical medicine * Wells turbine, a low-pressure air turbine *

1721 Wells 1721 Wells, provisional designation , is a dark asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately 44 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 3 October 1953, by Indiana University's (IU) Indiana Asteroid Program at Goethe ...

, an asteroid *

Wells (crater) Wells most commonly refers to: * Wells, Somerset, a cathedral city in Somerset, England * Well, an excavation or structure created in the ground * Wells (name) Wells may also refer to: Places Canada *Wells, British Columbia England * Wells ...

, an impact crater on Mars * Wells Vertige, a British sports car * Wells American, formerly Intertec Data Systems, a defunct American computer company