Wicheley Heath ('the woodland of the Hwicce') in Rutland, as depicted on Bowen's 1756 map: http://biblio.unibe.ch/web-apps/maps/zoomify.php?pic=Ryh_1809_5.jpg&col=ryh …pic.twitter.com/rU0t9QudKi
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Wicheley Heath ('the woodland of the Hwicce') in Rutland, as depicted on Bowen's 1756 map: http://biblio.unibe.ch/web-apps/maps/zoomify.php?pic=Ryh_1809_5.jpg&col=ryh …pic.twitter.com/rU0t9QudKi
Another interesting name is Whissendine, Rutland---'the valley of the Hwicce'. Same parish also features 'Wichley Leys' as a minor name :)
I assume it means your ancestors came from Rutland :)
Well, hope it has proven interesting! It's a fascinating name :)
Fwiw, a comparable move north from East Midlands prob explains name Lindisfarne too :)https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/651686106803650560 …
See also Jarrow=‘at the settlement of the Gyrwe’...Gyrwe were a Fenland group, eg Crowland='on middan Gyrwan fenne'!https://twitter.com/ClerkofOxford/status/719474411179548674 …
@caitlinrgreen Could it be the settlement or mr or mrs Gywre as in a personal name
@morangles No, is the plural group-name rather than an individual, as prob with the Hwicce names too :)
@caitlinrgreen THANKS question did they have settlement like personal name led?
@morangles How do you mean?
@caitlinrgreen when you have mr lets say marshall calling a city after him like marshall city
@morangles That's definitely how some names work in this era---refer to local rulers etc eg Grimsby etc. Others refer to groups eg Jarrow :)
An Early Anglo-Saxon brooch from Empingham, found around 250m from where the 3 Domesday Book hundreds of Rutland met: https://www.flickr.com/photos/84265607@N00/3814195086/ …pic.twitter.com/QOqRcvnXzH
@caitlinrgreen very intriguing post :) randomly, Wicca Pool (w of St Ives, Cornwall! ) came to mind; also the Wych Elm, British native tree
@CatherineEsse Thanks! Ah, never visited that! Similar form but alas different etymology---OE wice vs hwicce!
@caitlinrgreen also, thought of Hitchin, Herts (my home for 20yrs) - derived from C7th Hicce Saxon tribe, I gather - no connection? :)
@CatherineEsse Alas, again no connection! Poss Celtic origin, according to Ekwall... This well worth a read, btw :)https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ztqCoaEtehsC …
@caitlinrgreen thanks! - will check that out, as distraction ;) - final random thought - Wych Farm, Dorset (largest inland oil well!)
@CatherineEsse I fear yet another similar but different form, form has origins in OE for dairy etc farm, wic, if I recall correctly!
@caitlinrgreen so, every which way but ... :D thanks for all this!
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