Wramplingham is a village and

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in the

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. It is situated on the

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some north of

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and west of

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. 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

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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. The church of Wramplingham St Peter and St Paul is one of 124 existing

round-tower church Round-tower churches are a type of church found mainly in England, mostly in East Anglia; of about 185 surviving examples in the country, 124 are in Norfolk, 38 in Suffolk, six in Essex, three in Sussex and two each in Cambridgeshire and Berksh ...

es in

. Wramplingham Mill was a three-storey weatherboarded corn mill, demolished in 1945.

Bill Bryson William McGuire Bryson (; born 8 December 1951) is an American–British journalist and author. Bryson has written a number of nonfiction books on topics including travel, the English language, and science. Born in the United States, he has b ...

(born 1951), a British-American writer who gained sudden popularity, lived in Wramplingham between 2003 and 2013.Bill Bryson, 2016, ''The Road to Little Dribbling''. London: Black Swan.

References

* Ordnance Survey (1999). ''OS Explorer Map 237 - Norwich''. . * 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 websiteBarford & Wramplingham Village Hall
Website for the two villages with regularly updated event information. Villages in Norfolk Civil parishes in Norfolk {{Norfolk-geo-stub