Description: The name is supposed to have been derived from spring which runs out of the Bunter Sandstone over a bed of clay near to the northern end of the Forest, by the railway line and Bestwood Road, called 'Bull Well'. Dr Mutschmann, in 'The Place Names of Notts.,' suggests that the first part of the name may stand for a person - bulla, or a bull, or it may describe the bubbling sound produced by the flowing water of the spring. The architect of the local National School, having a fanciful sense of humour, embodied on a stone on the building the pretty legend of 'Once upon a time a bull dug his horns into the rock, and the water gushed out'.