About Withyhays

Withyhays is a small, breeding/showing hobby rabbitry located near Glastonbury, Somerset, and is named after a house I lived in as a child, in a village nearby. My father bought a ruined house which had once been School Rooms and then a Chapel, but which had no name. Once it had been rebuilt and renovated, my mother looked at old maps of the village and discovered the field opposite was named Withy Hays, meaning 'a field where withies are grown.' She chose this name, which dates back to Mediæval times, for our cottage.

It was while living there that I started keeping rabbits, and began showing them in 1976 when I was thirteen years old. When coming back to rabbits for a third time in 2014, I chose this name - a big part of my family's history - for my rabbit stud, registered with the British Rabbit Council.