Welcome to the website for Malvern Spa Association
The Malvern Hills are blessed with an abundance of natural springs, and water has played an important role in the area for millennia. If you are interested in any aspects Malvern’s natural and cultural spring water heritage, you should find plenty to read here. Please click on the images below to explore the website.
Malvern Well-dressing & Water Festival
May Day 2022
Read about this year’s festival
About Us
What we do, who’s who,
how to join & other info
MSA News
Keep up to date with all the latest news from Malvern Spa Association
Springs, Wells & Spouts
Explore Malvern’s
spring water heritage
Events
Find out about our events:
what’s on and when
Well-dressing
Find out more about our
annual well-dressing event
Projects
A range of MSA projects
past, present & future
About us
Malvern Spa Association was formed on 18th September 1998. Our aim is, with the community, to conserve, protect, restore and enhance Malvern’s spring water heritage. We work in partnership with national and local organisations, including the Malvern Hills AONB Partnership, Malvern Hills Trust, Malvern Hills District Council and Malvern Town Council. So far we have traced over a hundred springs, spouts, fountains, wells and other features in and around the Malvern Hills. Currently, only a few still supply pure spring water, free to the public.
Our purposes also include ‘increasing individual and collective knowledge of Malvern’s water, promoting the study, conservation, development and awareness of them to help preserve them for future generations’, and ‘preserving and maintaining the historic Malvern Hills’ water traditions, and celebrating the benefits of Malvern water by the annual Well Dressing Festival / other well dressing events’. Well-dressing is an ancient practice which stems from a natural desire to celebrate and express gratitude for the precious gift of fresh spring water. You will find more information about this and other natural and cultural aspects of Malvern water on this website.
A note about the website
You are viewing the content from the 2014 version of the website, but in a brand new format. We have updated the front pages and some of the information, but the rest of the content is a bit ‘tired’, and may be out-of-date.
Over the next few months we will go through everything and hope to launch the ‘new’ website early next year. However, we need help in making the new version as interesting and interactive as possible, and keeping the articles up-to-date. So please, if you are interested in websites and have a few hours to spare on this exciting new venture (or if you would like to help the MSA in other ways, especially by becoming a member) please contact us.
The photography on the website
The banner on the website and a number of other photos are taken by Jan Sedlacek