Wramplingham
Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:Infobox UK place Wramplingham is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It is situated on the River Tiffey some Template:Convert north of Wymondham and Template:Convert 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.Template:Fact
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.[1]
The church of Wramplingham St Peter and St Paul is one of 124 existing round-tower churches in Norfolk.Template:Fact
Wramplingham Mill was a three-storey weatherboarded corn mill, demolished in 1945.[2]
Bill Bryson (born 1951), a British-American writer who gained immense popularity, lived in Wramplingham at the Old Rectory between 2003 and 2013. [3]
References
- <templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>^ Ordnance Survey (1999). OS Explorer Map 237 - Norwich. Template:ISBN.
- <templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>^ 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
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- 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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- ↑ Full account with illustrations.
- ↑ Bill Bryson, 2016, The Road to Little Dribbling. London: Black Swan.