Wramplingham is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It is situated on the River Tiffey some 4 miles (6.4 km) north of Wymondham and 7 miles (11 km) west of Norwich. [1] The civil parish has an area of 3.47 square kilometres and in 2001 had a population of 110 in 44 households, increasing to a population of 115 in 51 households at the 2011 Census. For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the district of South Norfolk.[citation needed]
Heritage
The village name means "Homestead/village" or "hemmed-in land", with an obscure first element that is possibly a folk-name or place-name.[2]
The church of Wramplingham St Peter and St Paul is one of 124 existing round-tower churches in Norfolk.[citation needed]
Wramplingham Mill was a three-storey weatherboarded corn mill, demolished in 1945.[3]
Bill Bryson (born 1951), a British-American writer who gained immense popularity, lived in Wramplingham at the Old Rectory between 2003 and 2013. [4]
References
- ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 15 August 2016.
- ^ "Key to English Place-names".
- ^ Full account with illustrations.
- ^ Bill Bryson, 2016, The Road to Little Dribbling. London: Black Swan.
- ^ Ordnance Survey (1999). OS Explorer Map 237 - Norwich. ISBN 0-319-21868-6.
- ^ Office for National Statistics & Norfolk County Council (2001). Census population and household counts for unparished urban areas and all parishes. Retrieved 2 December 2005.
External links
Media related to Wramplingham at Wikimedia Commons
- Map sources for Wramplingham.
- Information from Genuki Norfolk on Wramplingham.
- St Peter and Paul on the European Round Tower Churches website
- Wramplingham Mill
- Barford & Wramplingham Village Hall Website for the two villages with regularly updated event information.
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