Notes & Queries Archive
REPLY1851

Wat the Hare

By H. H.

Your correspondent K. asks what other instances there are of *Wat* as the name of a *hare*? I know of one. On the market-house at Watton the spandrils of an Elizabethan doorway have been placed, taken from some old building in the town. This has a *hare* on one side, a *ton* on the other,—a rebus of the town name Watton.

Topics: Genealogy, Historical Customs

Locations: Watton