Lock, lach, locan and other spellings derive from the Cornish word loch, which is always a water feature of some kind, either a pool, especially a marine pool, or a river, especially an underground river. Much Wenlock has many underground streams, but it is probably the stream from which our St. St Milburga calls the area, not the town, in which she has her Abbey Wininicas. Bocock, The Placenames of Shropshire.
Much Wenlock. The Domesday Book listed it as Wenloch. Magna Wenlak was recorded in Version Two We have given you the above version first, because it seems to be the most popular amongst the locals of Wenlock, however, another version has been suggested by researchers: MUCH. Share with. This website uses cookies to improve your experience. Wenlock, a cute creature made from a droplet of steel from the steelworks used to build the Olympic stadium, takes his name from Much Wenlock, a small town in central Shropshire.
With a population of around 3, this very small town has a very large history. Much Wenlock is home to the Wenlock Olympian Games. Wenlock and Mandeville. Each of the mascots' names Wenlock and Mandeville carry a great deal of historical significance, tying London's history to the tradition of the Olympic and Paralympic games.
Wenlock's character was inspired by the small town in Shropshire called Much Wenlock, which actually hosted a precursor to what we know as the modern Summer Olympic Games back in the s. The Wenlock Games, as they were known back then, helped inspire Baron Pierre de Coubertain to conceptualize the modern Olympic Games in And what about Wenlock's partner, Mandeville? That character was named after the Stoke Mandeville Hospital, located in Buckinghamshire about miles southeast from Much Wenlock, which was actually the birthplace of the Paralympic Games.
Back then, the Stoke Mandeville Games was simply a series of competitions held for soldiers injured from the war, but it is largely regarded as the inspiration for the Paralympics. With the help of author Murpurgo, Wenlock and Mandeville were conceptualized as two drops of steel that came from a factory in Bolton, which were both taken home by a retiring worker.
That worker takes these steel droplets and molds characters out of the metal for his grandchildren. He gives them each a single eye, which is supposed to act as a camera lens to both see the world and respond to it.
Wenlock And Mandeville: Your Impressions? The mascots for the Olympic and Paralympic Games have received a fair share of hot and cold reviews. These phallic bugbears fitted out in foppish puffery are by far the worst mascots of any Olympics, and I say this while trying to suppress my memories of Atlanta's amorphous blob Whatzit later renamed Izzy , which ushered in the trend of using no creative effort whatsoever on mascot design.
Britain has brought this trend to its logical conclusion. Now, mascots are a mere accessory of the Olympic Games , a cheap merchandising tactic, and they're almost always terrible. Thankfully, with only a few weeks to grow fond of them before they fill up the bargain bin, they're almost always forgettable as well.
But that's what makes the colossal failure of Wenlock and Mandeville so jaw-dropping. Britain has somehow managed to take a relatively unimportant aspect of the Olympic Games and turn it into an unforgettable and indelible full-scale embarrassment. The release of these creatures on its own should have been enough to know Britain is unfit to host the Games.
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