Wycherley Family History
Wycherley Name Meaning
from Wycherley Hall in Stanwardine in the Wood (Shrops) which is recorded as Wycherley in 1396. The place-name derives from an uncertain first element (perhaps a derivative of Old English wice ‘wych elm’) + Old English lēah ‘wood woodland clearing’.
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016