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Wishing Well Cottage is the Dingle homestead, next door to Holdgate Farm. Many family members over the years have lived at the Cottage either temporally or over an extended period of time.

History[]

Wishing Well Cottage was originally a barn, a part of Holdgate Farm, and was rented out to the Dingles by Mr Holdgate. According to Lisa Dingle in 2017, the house held fifty years' worth of Dingle history, meaning that the family had lived there since at least 1967.

When Mr. Holdgate died in September 1995, Frank Tate, who had bought Holdgate Farm as part of the Home Farm Estate, tried to evict the Dingles as he technically owned the house. However, many of the villagers banded together to save the Dingles house so the Tates were forced to agree to allow the Dingles to stay and rent it.

In 1998, the Dingles faced loosing their home again after Lady Tara Oakwell's financial issues meant she had to sell off chunks of the Home Farm Estate. Tara's lawyer Laura Johnstone agreed to let the Dingles buy their house for £6,000, believing they'd never be able to raise the money. Her suspicions looked to be proved correct when the Dingles didn't have the money by the 1st October deadline so Zak, Lisa, Butch, and Mandy were forced to move out. However, Mandy managed to come up with the money after her boyfriend Paddy Kirk's mother Barbara paid her to marry someone else in the hopes that it would end her relationship with Paddy once and for all. After Mandy married her cousin Butch, Barbara handed over the cash and the Dingles were able to buy their house back.

On Christmas Day 1998, Lisa begins to feel unwell and her condition worsens throughout the day, Lisa tends to the pigs and suddenly goes into labour in the pigpen and with the help of local veterinarian Paddy Kirk she gives birth to Belle Dingle and this shock occurrence leads to Zak fainting at the sight of the new baby.

In 2001, The council surveyed the Dingle's nearby barn and deemed it unfit for purpose and condemned it when actually Eric Pollard had hatched up a plan to buy it and convert it into a factory. The Dingle's helped to renovate the factory in turn for jobs when it opened, The factory remained operational until 2008 when Sam, Eli and Gennie set fire to the building.

After Debbie Dingle moved out in early 2006, the Dingles transformed her old bedroom into a self-contained flat to give Sam and Alice their own space with their newborn son Samson, Alice sadly died later in the year in June 2006 after her terminal cancer diagnosis.

Joanie Wright moved into the property in 2015 and began an affair with Zak Dingle, Belle Dingle revealed the affair on Christmas Day Infront of the whole family this led to Lisa Dingle kicking the pair out of the cottage and subsequentially ending her marriage to Zak.

In January 2018, Joe Tate arranges for the house to be demolished to make way for an access road for a golf course. Joe throws a party at Home Farm so nobody will see Wishing Well Cottage get demolished, but whilst Chas Dingle was working at The Woolpack, Noah and Samson Dingle sneak off to Wishing Well Cottage and are trapped when the place is getting destroyed. However, Graham Foster beats up the contractors to get them to stop with the demolishing, and he and Eric Pollard save Noah and Samson.

In March 2019, Lisa returned to the village with Zak from Scotland where they stayed with Debbie, Lisa revealed to her family that she had been diagnosed with Amyloidosis and that she only had a short amount of time to live as the treatment failed to work, Lisa and Zak remarried in May 2019. Before the wedding celebrations the Dingle's pigs escaped from their pen and were rounded up by Cain, Belle and Lisa in their wedding outfits causing Lisa's dress to become caked in mud, After the wedding, celebrations were held in the pub and Lisa went home to get changed for the wedding photographs. Zak went to locate her at the cottage only to find that she had passed away on the sofa.

In January 2022, serial killer Meena Jutla breaks into the house, armed with a screwdriver, in order to retrieve Leanna Cavanagh’s stolen ring which was then stolen from her by Noah, and then dumped on Samson. Whilst she is there, she manages to find the ring, and also sees Vinny Dingle’s evidence board, trying to find out who murdered Ben Tucker and to free his girlfriend Liv Flaherty from prison. She tries to confuse Vinny by writing things on it, and stealing a photo of Ben. Vinny immediately realises it was her and confronts her at an abandoned barn. Meena then hits Vinny over the head with a plank of wood and hold him hostage along with her sister Manpreet Sharma. They are both rescued by Liam Cavanagh and when everyone learns about Meena’s crimes, Liv is eventually released from prison.

In October 2024, Zak passed away suddenly with Debbie informing Moira by phone call, He passed away in his armchair in Scotland after a day poaching and Cain informed the rest of the Dingle clan of his passing with the three siblings Cain, Belle and Sam sharing a tender moment in Wishing Well. Cain and Sam set off for Aberdeen to collect Zak's body to bring him home to be buried, He was buried in the Dingle homestead with Belle stepping up with a lovely touch of burying Zak with Lisa’s ashes so they could be together.

Tina Dingle returned for the event after a lengthy absence of nearly thirty years with her eyes set on claiming her inheritance, Mandy confronted Tina when she found photos of Wishing Well on her phone, and Tina declared that she was going to get the place valued because she deserved her birth right. A row broke out, Lydia stepped in, pushing Tina into the mud near the graveside when she insulted Sam, Lydia revealed that she had been left in charge of Zak's will and that Cain, Sam and Belle had been left Wishing Well in Zak's will.

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