Wramplingham

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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]

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  2. Full account with illustrations.
  3. Bill Bryson, 2016, The Road to Little Dribbling. London: Black Swan.