22 August 2025
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All Wychall Willow Nook.
I have not been loyal to the Old English etymology of
Wychall when calling it the Willow Nook. Although “wyc” may have
been distorted form withig, meaning willow, and “hall” could possibly
be halh, meaning nook, Wychall probably has a different derivation – the
wic-heall, or dairy hall/farmstead.
But land-lore might be made to shift, if set free like
wisp-like seeds in the wind, and left to see what takes root. Like the cotton
wool catkins of willow trees, floating cobwebs seeking damp soils.
Photographs by Jen Dixon
22 August 2025From the Arden Archive
