Wramplingham is a village and
civil parish
In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...
in the
English county
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of
Norfolk
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. It is situated on the
River Tiffey some north of
Wymondham
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and west of
Norwich
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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
district
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of
South Norfolk
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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 churches in
Norfolk
Norfolk ( ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in England, located in East Anglia and officially part of the East of England region. It borders Lincolnshire and The Wash to the north-west, the North Sea to the north and eas ...
.
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 be ...
(born 1951), a British-American writer who gained immense popularity, lived in Wramplingham at the Old Rectory 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 Norfolkon 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
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