Wikipedia's Ryhall article gives the outline. Saint Tibba, patron saint of falconers, is believed to have lived in Ryhall in the seventh century and to have been buried there. In the eleventh century her relics were moved to Peterborough Abbey. According to legend she was a niece of King Penda of Mercia. The remains of a small hermitage associated with her can be seen on the west side of the north aisle of the church, and a nineteenth century book mentions a holy well dedicated to her, though its location cannot now be identified.
The folklore version, given by Charles Billson in 1895 from William Stukeley's papers and paraphrased by Roy Palmer in 1985, adds Tibba's cousin Eabba. Both were "wild hunting girls" who became hermits. The present church is supposed to stand over Tibba's cell. Tibba walked up a hill to wash at a spring called after her, and Eabba had her own spring near the River Gwash, later called Shepherd Jacob's Well, with the nearby ford once St Eabba's Well Ford, now Stableford Bridge.
Bob Trubshaw's survey of Leicestershire and Rutland holy wells is sceptical. He notes that the place-name scholar Barrie Cox treats the Stableford derivation as a folk etymology and doubts St Eabba entirely, while accepting that Tibba is a real saint. The earliest mention of Tibba's Well is in the Victoria County History of 1935, and the well may have been invented in the late 19th century. The hill carries the older names Tibael Hill and Tipple Hill, but there is no documented medieval well cult.
The record is therefore tagged contested: Tibba is a saint with a long Ryhall tradition, but the specific wells and the story of Eabba rest on antiquarian tradition.
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