White Sitch | |
Pushpin Map: | Staffordshire |
Location: | Blymhill, Staffordshire |
Type: | Reservoir |
Basin Countries: | England |
Area: | 0.041sqmi |
Islands: | 1 |
White Sitch is a 19th Century designed landscape by John Webb containing a picturesque reservoir in the middle, one mile west of Blymhill in Staffordshire, England. It is situated in a tract of cropped and mixed woodland currently owned by Bradford Estates. The woods are used for commercial plantation forestry and the reservoir for commercial carp fishing.[1]
The element 'sytch' is derived from the Old English síc ("siche" in the midlands Middle English dialect). It means a "small stream of water, a rill or streamlet, esp. one flowing through flat or marshy ground, and often dry in summer; a ditch or channel through which a tiny stream flows" and is frequently used in the sense of a boundary.[2] [3] White Sytch lies close to the boundary of the parish.