Great Wymondley

Coordinates: 51°56′36″N 0°14′09″W / 51.94337°N 0.23594°W / 51.94337; -0.23594
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Great Wymondley
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townHitchin
Postcode districtSG4
Dialling code01438
PoliceHertfordshire
FireHertfordshire
AmbulanceEast of England
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51°56′36″N 0°14′09″W / 51.94337°N 0.23594°W / 51.94337; -0.23594

Great Wymondley is a village and former civil parish situated near Hitchin, now in the parish of Wymondley,[1] in the North Hertfordshire district, in the county of Hertfordshire, England. Despite the names, Great Wymondley is a smaller settlement than its neighbour, Little Wymondley. In 1931 the parish had a population of 285.[2]

Landscape

The village is set in an agricultural landscape which is protected within the Green Belt.[1] The soil is boulder clay above chalk.

Field system

In the late 19th century the historian Frederic Seebohm, who lived in Hitchin, studied the layout of local villages, including Wymondley's field system. In publications such as The English Village Community (1883), he looked at continuity between Roman and English villages. Seebohm was aware that there was a

Roman road east of Wymondley, passing through Graveley on the way to Baldock. He was also aware of research that had been done on the work of Roman land surveyors (known as gromatici
) elsewhere in the Roman Empire. As well as aligning roads, Roman land surveyors were involved in organising field boundaries.

Seebohm argued that Wymondley's

Anglo-Saxon settlement of this part of Hertfordshire. Toponyms also supply some evidence for continuity, for example the village of Wallington
near Baldock appears to have been named by the Anglo-Saxons after its Romano-British population.

History

Wymondley appears in the Domesday Book with a recorded population of 58 households. This figure does not distinguish between Great and Little Wymondley,[4] but scholars have been able to derive data about the separate villages from the Domesday record.[5]

Great Wymondley was a separate civil parish until 1 April 1937, when it merged with neighbouring Little Wymondley to form a single parish called Wymondley.[6]

Buildings

Ruins

There are two scheduled monuments in the parish:

Extant buildings

The

Grade I listed.[9] It has a Norman nave and chancel, the latter being an apse built of small rounded stones.[10]

Delamere House is an elegant

King Henry VIII
's wives.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Natural and historic environments www.wymondley.org
  2. A Vision of Britain through Time
    . Retrieved 1 November 2022.
  3. ^
    OCLC 21974214
    .
  4. ^ Powell-Smith, Anna. "Domesday Book - Great and Little] Wymondley". Open Domesday. Archived from the original on 28 February 2022. Retrieved 21 May 2022.
  5. ^ Fitzpatrick-Matthews, Keith (2020). "The Archaeology of the Wymondleys".
  6. ^ "Great Wymondley Ancient Parish/Chapelry/Civil Parish through time - Census tables with data for the Parish-level Unit". A Vision of Britain through Time. GB Historical GIS, University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 21 May 2022.
  7. ^ "Roman villa (site of)". ancientmonuments.UK.
  8. ^ "Great Wymondley Castle".
  9. ^ "Church of St Mary the Virgin (Great Wymondley)".
  10. ^ Young, Richard; Hamilton, Liz (21 April 2015) [Updated 2 February 2021]. "The earth beneath our feet". Hertfordshire Life.

Further reading

External links

Media related to Great Wymondley at Wikimedia Commons

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