Talk:Waverley Abbey

message: Two problems with sources for this question.
* A source is cited for the statement that the connection is claimed on a sign at the site entrance; this is http://www.waverley.gov.uk/abbey/wav_abbey.htm but that is a "page not found" today (2013-01-04)
* The next sentence asserts "this is probably not the case" but does not discuss it except to say Scott "chose to adopt the name" and gives no source at all for the assertion.
The section rather disappointingly called Miscellany in the article Waverley (novel) mentions several places and things named after the novel but there seems no mention of what the character who gives his surname to the novel is named after apart from saying "He journeys north from his aristocratic family home, Waverley-Honour, in the south of England".
The modern administrative district of Waverley is named after the (long since ruined) Abbey and it is in west Surrey so definitely in "the south of England". So what grounds are there for asserting that the Abbey ruins being the inspiration for Scott so naming this character and his fictional home is "probably not the case"? 
The sentence after the one above enlarges on it and has a reference to the abbey page of a website called Astoft. A statement there can serve as a source for the first statement above (about the sign at the entry to the ruins) and it proceeds to state that the sign is "quite misleading" and quoting from Scott's remarks "at the beginning of Waverley".
However, Scott was quite possibly being disingenuous in his quoted denial.  That is to say, if we have the word "Waverley", which the novelist asserts he conjured out of nowhere, and yet we have a place with that same exact name "in the south of England" where there was an abbey, long since in ruins but after which is still named an entire administrative district of modern 21st century England, in south west Surrey and containing in its boundaries those abbey ruins, so that the ruins and the place surrounding them have been known as Waverley for many centuries, can we really believe that this novelist had never come across the name “Waverley” and that he made the name up out of his head? I don't think so. 
Iph (talk) 16:46, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I am not entirely sure what your argument is, but certainly the Waverley novels were not influenced or inspired by Waverley Abbey. As I recall, the information sign at Waverley Abbey states that Waverley was inspired by the Annals of Waverley rather then the abbey itself, but I don't think there is anything to support this assertion either. Scott himself stated: "I have, therefore, like a maiden knight with his white shield, assumed for my hero, Waverley, an uncontaminated name, bearing with its sound little of good or evil, excepting what the reader shall hereafter be pleased to affix to it." BabelStone (talk) 18:57, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inspiration of Scott&rsquo;s ''Waverley'' 

message: Meadow  at Elsted is mentioned. Is this intended? Elstead seems more probable. What is the ref for this section? SovalValtos (talk) 11:45, 22 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  History 

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message: Does this article really need two large images of the tree? While possibly important in the article about such trees, here it is just a small, if fascinating, aside. Murgatroyd49 (talk) 15:44, 4 November 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: No. Just one should do. As interesting as the one of the roots is, it should be available in commons; so the one of the whole tree by BabelStone preferred.SovalValtos (talk) 18:28, 4 November 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Done Murgatroyd49 (talk) 18:38, 4 November 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I have added the category Waverley Abbey Yew for the good Uhooep roots image so it can be found more easily in commons.SovalValtos (talk) 19:23, 4 November 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Good idea Murgatroyd49 (talk) 20:05, 4 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Yew tree