title: Well (disambiguation)
text: # Well (disambiguation)
  
  A well is an artificial excavation, hole or structure for the purpose of withdrawing an underground resource, usually water
  
  Well may also refer to:
  
  ## Structures
  
  ### Used for resource extraction
  
  * Castle well, providing a protected source of drinking water
  * Oil well, a hole drilled through the Earth's surface for the purpose of extracting petroleum oil
  * Salt well, or brine well, used to mine salt
  * Well drainage of agricultural land by pumped wells
  
  ### Other structures
  
  * Air well (condenser), a structure or device designed to promote the condensation of atmospheric moisture
  * Clootie well, a place of pilgrimage in Celtic areas
  * Holy well, often pagan sacred sites that were later Christianized
  * Jacob's Well, of religious significance in the West Bank
  * Lightwell, in architecture, an unroofed space designed to allow sunlight to reach interior areas
  * Wishing well, a term from European folklore
  
  ## Places
  
  * Well, Hampshire, England
  * Well, Lincolnshire, a village in England
  * Well, North Yorkshire, a village in England
  * Well, Gelderland, Netherlands
  * Well, Limburg, a village in the Netherlands
  * Well (Chinese constellation)
  
  ## Arts, entertainment, and media
  
  ### Music
  
  * Well..., 1994 album by Katey Sagal
  * ...Well?, 1991 album by Swell
  * "Well", song by Little Richard from his 1967 album The Explosive Little Richard
  * "Well", song by Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band from their 1969 album Trout Mask Replica
  * "Well", song by The Olympics
  * "Well...," song by Frankie Goes to Hollywood from their 1984 album Welcome to the Pleasuredome
  
  ### Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media
  
  * Well (play), 2004 play by Lisa Kron
  * Well (film), 2016 Hungarian film
  
  ## Science and technology
  
  * Well, the condition of having a high level of well-being
  * Well, good health
  * Gravity well or gravitational, a conceptual model of the gravitational field surrounding a body in space
  * Potential well, a concept used in physics related to kinetic energy
  * Quantum well, a potential well with only discrete energy values
  * Well, a microtiter plate, used in chemistry and biochemistry
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * "Well,..." a catchphrase often used by former U.S. President Ronald Reagan
  * Well drink, an alcoholic beverage made with liquor from a bartender's well
  * Well Pharmacy, a British pharmacy chain
  * The WELL, originally Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, a virtual community
  * "The Well", a nickname for the Scottish football team Motherwell F.C.
  * The well of the court, part of the courtroom in some countries
  