The name is said to mean "winding river" and it is reported to have based on the Old Welsh word chwylog, the chwyl part of which means "a turn, a rotation, a course", with an adjective suffix of og.
[1] The river has given its name to the large village of Wheelock.
[2] In his book The History of Cheshire (1778), Daniel King et al write:
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