Coding classes in Wells, Somerset

The cathedral traces the city's name to the wells themselves, from the Anglo-Saxon wella: springs that still rise in the garden of the Bishop's Palace and that it calls the reason for the original settlement. Inside, the scissor arches built from 1338 to 1348 by the master mason William Joy were a repair for a tower that had begun to crack. When the clock strikes each quarter, jousting knights rush round above it and the Quarter Jack strikes the quarter hours with his heels, and an outside clock opposite Vicars' Hall is connected with the inside mechanism. The cathedral calls Vicars' Close, built over 650 years ago for the Vicars Choral, the oldest continuously occupied medieval street in Europe, and records that Bishop Ralph decreed forty-two houses should be built, one for each member of the Vicars Choral. We have no connection with Wells Cathedral, and its descriptions are quoted as its own.

The first row catches the most bugs. The Naval Observatory gives every time in Universal Time, while Wells keeps British Summer Time, one hour ahead, from late March to late October. The full moon at 18:09 UT on 7 September 2025 was 19:09 in Wells, the same evening, but a summer full moon at 23:30 UT would already be the next day on a Wells clock. So every date result on this page is a UT date, and a learner who forgets that will count some moons as misses that were really hits.

We have no connection with the US Naval Observatory, NASA, Wells Cathedral, Historic England or Somerset Council. The full-moon list, the month length and the census tables are published openly; the Julian day conversions, predictions and pairings on this page are our own analysis.

So yes, a Wells teenager should keep learning to code in 2026, in a city whose cathedral clock works date from about 1390: machines can produce the code, but someone still has to check that it keeps good time. The longer argument is in why coding is worth learning in 2026.