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About Me

Whiteleaf Cross. A hill carving is set in the Chiltern Hills of Buckinghamshire and there are many varied tales as to how it became so. The earliest reference to it is from a charter dated 903ad stating it as a boundary marker thought to be of a phallic nature, yet as a cross it is first shown noted in the parish records in 1742, but also supposedly depicted in a 14th century tile at nearby St.Dunstans Church. During the 1400s Monks came to the region and one theory states that it was they who carved the Cross piece adapting the previous Pagan marker to suit their needs to help convert the people as it was the last remaining region of our native English Celt. The area prior to their arrival was known locally as Waylands Stock, and most likely first named so by the Saxons on finding the Neolithic hill carving, Wayland being the ancient Deity of Smith workers, and stock referring in some translations to a phallus. At the top of the Hill there is one of the only Neolithic round barrows in southern England plus two bowl barrows, and to add further evidence that this hill was sacred to our ancient ancestors it was a Beacon Hill and is also on a most ancient track way known as the Icknield Way. Farming records show that crops grown below the hill and on that side of the Icknield way fetched a better price at market. The Earl of Buckingham widened greatly the base to the now triangular shape in the 1900s, and perhaps so to enable more Victorian folk to slide down on their faggots as for a time this was a rather popular thing to do. A campaign is now underway calling for a revival interpretation to return the carving back to its former Phallus self. Please feel free to paste and send the pre written email in the blog above sending it to the Buckinghamshire County Council {email address provided} if you would like to add your approval to this campaign. Also should you wish to edit the email or write your own message please feel free but please do keep it polite. A great many merry thanks and wishes be with you.

My Interests

Fertility, looking splendid and making folk smile.

I'd like to meet:

All who wish to see me re-erected and standing proud. a

Music:

Everything Most Merry, Rousing, Alluring and Delightful.

Books:

Author-Dr.F.G.Parsons. A Kings Highway-Leonard Bull. Chiltern Country-H.J.Massingham. Buckinghamshire-Alison Uttley. Chilterns Magazine {vol 1 No.2 winter 1949.} Discovering Hill Figures-Kate Bergamar. The Old Straight Track-Alfred Watkins. Princes Risborough The Official Guide 1969.

Heroes:

Wayland {the rest of me that is}, Hervor, Uffington Horse, Wayland Smithy, Bledlow Cross, Rollright Stones, Cerne Abbas Giant, Silbury Hill, Avebury, Stone Henge, Long Man of Wilmington, Beech Trees, Beacon Fires, Bodgers, Morris Dancers, Elfs and Fae, Musicians and Artists, my Campaign fiddly bit helpers and all of you who wish to see me re-erected: Dislikes-14th century Monks, being urbanised, un-scenic notice boards and the like, disrespectful ravers, litter.

My Blog

Tourist Attraction.

We've been thinking lately about how much Bucks County Council may have missed a great oppertunity when they spent so much money re-biulding the Iron Age round barrow incorrectly, adding the Time Line...
Posted by Waylands Stock on Fri, 02 May 2008 02:35:00 PST

WAYLAND STOCK CAMPAIGN BLOG.

Please feel free to paste and send the pre written email in the blog above sending it to the Buckinghamshire County Council {email address below} if you would like to add your approval to this campai...
Posted by Waylands Stock on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 04:45:00 PST

Emotional Blackmail by Bucks CC.

Below is our latest letter to Bucks County Council, if after reading it you also feel as outraged as we do please email it to them too, {you may choose any eaddress below as they seem to be givin...
Posted by Waylands Stock on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 06:08:00 PST

We made some news.

A great many thanks to Cerne Abbos Giant for his blog with this link in to The Museum News. http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART50352.html Campaign in the Bucks Herald here ht...
Posted by Waylands Stock on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 03:43:00 PST

A copy of the Charter in old Latin and AngloSaxon.

With thanks to the Fortean Sociaty here is a copy on the Charter from ad903. Regnante Aðulf dedit eastren Risberge . Eðelgiðe filie sue . . latine . Regnante inperpetuum et mundi monarchiam gub...
Posted by Waylands Stock on Mon, 05 Nov 2007 04:57:00 PST

Glow Worms, latest news and thank you!

Huge mismanagement of Grangelands Nature Reserve by Bucks County Council using bulldozers for scrub clearance has lead to the areas disasterous fall in Glow Worm numbers. This area was once ...
Posted by Waylands Stock on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 04:51:00 PST

Charter in part! and nr by Bledlow Cross/Phallus

Interestingly enough Bucks CC web site mentions the Charter from 903ad IN PART as follows yet they fall short of mentioning all of the boundary. Below then is what they do say...... 'These settl...
Posted by Waylands Stock on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 04:00:00 PST

Firmer Facts and Wayland Myth.

Firmer facts. Whiteleaf Cross cut into the turf has tested the curious mind for at least two hundred years, certainly pre-Roman, not Saxon nor mediaeval, and so coeval with megalithic period or earlie...
Posted by Waylands Stock on Thu, 20 Sep 2007 05:06:00 PST

A Bit About The Campaign.

We believe the gathered infomation here seems a worthy conjecture to put foward, though of course there are many other theories about this area too. Although we started this campaign it is very m...
Posted by Waylands Stock on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 06:00:00 PST