BS: what is a wappy spring

Subject: BS: what is a wappy spring
From: Red and White Rabbit
Date: 06 Dec 02 - 11:21 AM

Since I changed jobs and have to drive to the desolate desert of Batley W.Yorks I pass by a watering hole daily - which I am sure is not a mirage. Being early in the morning ( 7.30am) I have never had the chance yet to stop and ask why is said oasis called WAPPY SPRING?

Any suggestions?

Subject: RE: BS: what is a wappy spring
From: Schantieman
Date: 06 Dec 02 - 01:22 PM

...er...


No. Not really. Is this a pub?   Maybe it's some obscure bit of Yorky dialect that the 9Hull crowd can help us with?

Steve

Subject: RE: BS: what is a wappy spring
From: Schantieman
Date: 06 Dec 02 - 01:29 PM

Joh9n's never heard of it.

Subject: RE: BS: what is a wappy spring
From: GUEST,Hilary
Date: 06 Dec 02 - 01:35 PM

When I've heard Wappy used it's as in "He's gone wappy" meaning lost their temper.

How a spring can go wappy ...... ?

But in Chambers :

Wap (1) ........ a fight/quarrel
Wap (2) To wrap,bind. a turn of a string with which anything is bound.

.... springs have to bound

Subject: RE: BS: what is a wappy spring
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 06 Dec 02 - 01:58 PM

The Wappy Spring Inn at Lindley, presumably. There seems to be a Wappy Spring Farm as well. Wappy can mean strange, or silly; but I gather that (in the Huddersfield area at least) it can also mean fast, or refer to a short-cut. I don't know how accurate that is, but I expect they'd know in Lindley.

Subject: RE: BS: what is a wappy spring
From: Cluin
Date: 07 Dec 02 - 02:03 AM

Shhhh... be vewwy quiet.

I'm hunting a wappy little wabbit.


huhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuh

Subject: RE: BS: what is a wappy spring
From: Red and White Rabbit
Date: 07 Dec 02 - 03:22 PM

you'll never catch me - far too fly

where I come from wappy means crazy but crazy spring didnt make much sense

living in Longwood I have nothing to do with that Lindley Crowd!!!

I would have thought it came under Birchencliffe or Mount ( back to bloody rabbits again)

Subject: RE: BS: what is a wappy spring
From: Red and White Rabbit
Date: 07 Dec 02 - 03:24 PM

Forgot to mention - I hailed from Hull and so if it were 'ull dialect I think I would have known

Subject: RE: BS: what is a wappy spring
From: Roughyed
Date: 07 Dec 02 - 05:30 PM

I see from the map that the inn is very near Wapping Nick Lane, so I suspect it is a corruption of Wapping Spring. I have no idea what Wapping means but it is a more familiar place name that Wappy.

Subject: RE: BS: what is a wappy spring
From: Ned Ludd
Date: 07 Dec 02 - 05:39 PM

I was brought up in Salendine nook just down the road, and I was told by my Dad that the pub was named after the spring which it used to brew its beer. Alas- no longer, not in my drinking days though I did used to quaff Websters best there.
In my Dad's day the beer there was of great renown!