Wretham village sign
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Wretham village sign by Adrian S Pye as part of the Geograph project.
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Wretham village sign
Image: © Adrian S Pye Taken: 22 Nov 2020
The sign is surmounted by a Ram’s head remembering that at one time a ram was released in a barley field after the harvest and whoever caught it was allowed to keep it. The ram was donated by Eton college which manorial rights at the time. The pine trees and the grey partridges represent all the local flora and fauna. The sharp-eyed will notice one of the partridges is investigating a beetle, locally called a chovy of which there are many, otherwise known as cockchafers. The presence of the witch is a bit of a mystery and probably included for a bit of fun although many parishes had traditions of witchcraft in the middle ages, some of which persisted into the last century.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.474672
Longitude
0.830117