Giggleswick's ebbing and flowing well has perplexed and entertained for many centuries. It is a temperamental phenomenon which never seems to work for visitors, but locals are insistent that it performs frequently.

What causes it to ebb and flow has been a source of many arguments, but the most popular theory is that a siphon in the limestone is the cause. A far more romantic explanation has been unearthed however, by Tot Lord from manuscripts in the Pig-Yard Club Museum.

These reveal that, set face downwards in the base of the well, there is an inscribed stone bearing the legend of a miracle performed long ago by a priest to show an evildoer the wickedness of his ways:-

"Ye water dyd run yn even course botte Prioure Richard Moore bie ye power from above dyd mak it to rise and to fall yn a most curious manner so that he (the evildoer) dyd afterwards paie hys tithes and dyd forsake hys evylie waies."