Golden Wheel Village Sign - Whilton, Northamptonshire - Wagon Wheels on Waymarking.com

A 'Wagon Wheel' incorporated into the village sign for Whilton, Northants.

"The new Whilton village sign on the Green was erected by the Parish Council on 21st February 2012.
The sign was chosen after asking parishioners for ideas, and this was the choice of the Clements family. The sign reflects aspects of Whilton and its history. The name of the parish comes from Saxon times, and most probably means “settlement on the wheel-shaped hill”. The Anglo-Saxon was translated into Latin in the Domesday Book in 1086 as “Woltone” and this appears at the bottom of the sign, with the modern spelling at the top.
The wheel shape reminds us not only of the derivation of the name, but also that wheels and travel have always been part of this parish’s history.
From Roman times, Watling Street and the road towards Duston were important, later train wheels on the London to Birmingham Railway passed through, joined in modern times by those thundering up and down the motorway. Besides this, Field View, in the village centre, once had a wheelwright’s workshop.
Everyone who looks at the sign may interpret it in their own way. Ken Bowers adapted the original design using the wheel to symbolise Main Street as the hub of the viliage with the six spokes being the side lanes of Whilton, and it has also been suggested that the wheel could represent the bell wheels in the tower, an aspect of Whilton Church.
The wheel has been picked out in gold, and the colour blue has been introduced as a reminder that Wadd Close, Second Wadd Close and some of the Roughmoor fields were areas where weed was grown in the 18th century, in order to produce blue dye.
The sign was produced by Haddonstone Ltd of Brixworth. The company offers a range of English hand-crafted stonework, garden furniture and ornaments."

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