Wormegay
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Wormegay is a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The village is situated some Script error: No such module "convert". south of King's Lynn and Template:Cvt west of Norwich.[1]
It covers an area of Template:Cvt and had a population of 339 in 141 households at the 2001 census,[2] the population increasing to 359 at the 2011 census.[3]
For the purposes of local government, it falls within the district of King's Lynn and West Norfolk. Norfolk County Council is responsible for roads, some schools, and social services. For Westminster elections the parish forms part of the North West Norfolk constituency.
The place-name 'Wormegay' is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086, and means 'the island of Wyrm's people'.[4]
The parish church is a Grade II* listed building. Just to the west of the village centre lies Wormegay Castle, a motte-and-bailey earthwork.
Notes
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- ↑ Ordnance Survey (1999). OS Explorer Map 236 - King's Lynn, Downham Market & Swaffham. Template:ISBN.
- ↑ Census population and household counts for unparished urban areas and all parishes Template:Webarchive. Office for National Statistics & Norfolk County Council (2001). Retrieved 20 June 2009.
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- ↑ Eilert Ekwall, Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names, p. 535.
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External links
- Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". for Wormegay.
- Information from Genuki Norfolk on Wormegay