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In 1974 a group of new age travellers were encamped near Stonehenge, and to help hinder the process of eviction by the landowners, all gave their name as Wally of Wessex, [5] "Wally being a conveniently anonymous umbrella for vulnerable individuals". [2]
The Wallies of Wessex were a group of people who squatted on ground close to Stonehenge in 1974. The Department of the Environment and the National Trust landowners started court proceedings to have the squatters evicted.
Wally's name is localized in different regions to better fit the local culture and/or language. A few examples: in Denmark he is called Holger, Charlie in France, Walter in Germany, Wōrī in Japanese, Ali in Turkey, Willie in South Africa and Jonas in Lithuania.
When Handford first designed his leading man, he named him Wally - a shortened formed of Walter or Wallace but commonly used in Britain as a slang term for a somewhat spacey person.
Wessex, one of the kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England, whose ruling dynasty eventually became kings of the whole country. In its permanent nucleus, its land approximated that of the modern counties of Hampshire, Dorset, Wiltshire, and Somerset. Learn more about Wessex, including its kings.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
I’d like to know what the people of Wessex called themselves or each other, this could also include what the Mercian called the people of Wessex or what the Northumbrians called the people of Wessex, same with the vikings or the French.
The Kingdom of the West Saxons, also known as the Kingdom of Wessex, was an Anglo-Saxon kingdom in the south of Great Britain, from around 519 until Alfred the Great declared himself as King of the Anglo-Saxons in 886. [2] The Anglo-Saxons believed that Wessex was founded by Cerdic and Cynric of the Gewisse, though this is considered by some to ...
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