Wymondham, Norfolk
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A visit to the beautiful market town of Wymondham in Norfolk on a wonderfully sunny day in early March 2011.
Wymondham's most famous inhabitant was Robert Kett (or Ket), who led a rebellion in 1549 of peasants and small farmers in protest at the enclosure of common land. He took a force of almost unarmed men and fought for and held the City of Norwich for six weeks until defeated by the King's forces. He was hanged from Norwich Castle. Kett's Oak, said to be the rallying point for the rebellion, can still be seen today on the B1172 road between Wymondham and Hetherset, part of the former main road to London.
I make references to fires in all of my walks around medieval towns as they date from the time of the last great fire. The Great Fire of Wymondham broke out on Sunday 11 June 1615. Two areas of the town were affected, implying there were two separate fires. One area was in Vicar Street and Middleton Street and the other in the Market Place, including Bridewell Street and Fairland Street. About 300 properties were destroyed in the fire. Important buildings destroyed included: the Market Cross, dating from 1286; the vicarage in Vicar Street; the 'Town Hall' on the corner of Middleton Street and Vicar Street; and the schoolhouse. However, many buildings such as the Green Dragon pub did survive and many of the houses in Damgate Street date back to 1400, although this is now masked by later brickwork.
The fire was started by three Gypsies - William Flodder, John Flodder and Ellen Pendleton (Flodder) - and a local person, Margaret Bix (Elvyn). The register of St Andrew's Church in Norwich records that John Flodder and others were executed on 2 December 1615 for the burning of Wymondham. Rebuilding of the destroyed buildings was quick in some cases and slower in others. A new Market Cross, the one we see today, was started and completed in 1617. However, by 1621 there were still about 15 properties not yet rebuilt. Economic conditions in the 1620s could have been a contributory factor to the delay in rebuilding.
Kett's Rebellion was evidence of an undercurrent of ferment in 16th-century Wymondham. Comparable discontent showed itself in the 17th century when a number of Wymondham citizens, including Thomas Lincoln, John Beal and others, moved to Hingham, Norfolk in the wave of religious dissent that swept England in the years preceding Cromwell's Commonwealth.
In 1785, a prison was built using the ideas of John Howard, the prison reformer. It was the first prison to be built in this country with separate cells for the prisoners and was widely copied both in the United Kingdom and the United States of America.
The collapse of the woollen industry in the mid-19th century led to great poverty in Wymondham. In 1836 there were 600 hand looms, but by 1845 only 60 existed. During Victorian times the town was a backwater and never experienced large-scale development. The town centre remains very much as it must have been in the mid-17th century, when the houses were rebuilt after the Great Fire. These newer houses, and those which survived the Great Fire, still surround shoppers and visitors as they pass through Wymondham's narrow mediaeval streets.
Wymondham in the Second World War was home to one of MI6's Radio Security Service direction finding stations; the type at Wymondham was a Spaced Loop design newly developed by the National Physical Laboratory. Unfortunately, this was soon found to be unsatisfactory and was converted to the more traditional Adcock type.. The station at Wymondham was located at latitude=52.583333, longitude=1.121667, just north of Tuttles Lane and east of Melton Road. Based on information from one of the WW2 operators it transpires that another spaced loop station was later installed alongside the first in 1944 after the Normandy invasion. This may have been due to increased interest in transmissions from western Europe where the shorter distance made the spaced loop more reliable.
As you can see in this film, in the town centre, there is a market cross, which is now used as a Tourist Information Centre and is owned by the Town Council. The original building was destroyed in the Great Fire of Wymondham in 1615; the present building was rebuilt between 1617-18 at a cost of £25-7-0d with funds loaned by local man, Philip Cullyer. The stilted building was like many others designed to protect valuable documents from both flood and vermin. According to T.F. Thistleton Dyer's English Folklore [London, 1878], live rats were nailed by their tails to the side of the building by way of a deterrent. This bizarre superstition ended in 1902 after a child was bitten, later to die of blood-poisoning.
Wymondham Abbey is the Church of England parish church.
Places to see in ( Wymondham - UK )
Places to see in ( Wymondham - UK )
Wymondham is a historic market town and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It lies 9.5 miles to the south west of the city of Norwich, just off the A11 road from Norwich to London which now by-passes the town. The parish includes large rural areas to the north and south of the town itself. It is the fourth largest civil parish in Norfolk.
In the town centre, there is a market cross, which is now used as a Tourist Information Centre and is owned by the Town Council. The original building was destroyed in the Great Fire of Wymondham in 1615; the present building was rebuilt between 1617–18 at a cost of £25-7-0d with funds loaned by local man, Philip Cullyer. The stilted building was like many others designed to protect valuable documents from both flood and vermin. According to T. F. Thistleton Dyer's English Folklore [London, 1878], live rats were nailed by their tails to the side of the building by way of a deterrent.
This bizarre superstition ended in 1902 after a child was bitten, later to die of blood-poisoning. Wymondham Abbey is the Church of England parish church. The headquarters of Norfolk Constabulary are located in Wymondham. The former town jail or bridewell now houses the Wymondham Heritage Museum.
The Wymondham railway station (voted Best Small Station in the 2006 National Rail Awards) possesses a piano showroom and a locally famous Brief Encounter-themed restaurant. The latter featured in Mark Greenstreet's 1996 comedy film Caught in the Act, which starred Sara Crowe, Annette Badland, Nadia Sawalha, Paul Shelly and Leslie Phillips. (N.B. Brief Encounter was shot 250 miles away, using Carnforth railway station, Lancashire.) The whole site has been restored by owner David Turner and also houses a small railway museum.
The station was featured as the Walmington-on-Sea station in the popular BBC comedy series Dad's Army. Wymondham station is the junction for the Mid-Norfolk Railway, although their trains, running 11.5 miles (19 km) north to Dereham operate from the separate Wymondham Abbey station. The town once had another station, Spinks Lane, but this closed shortly after opening in the 19th century.
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Wymondham - a short tour around the town
Tour of Britain - Stage 7 - Wymondham - London Road
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The historic market town of Wymondham welcomes The Tour of Britain for the first time after just over 115 kilometres of racing, hosting a Yodel Sprint in the Market Square, under the watchful gaze of the famous market cross, rebuilt in 1618 after the Great Fire of Wymondham
It had been bright and sunny all morning but just before they arrived, the heavens opened. It had stopped raining by the time they got here but the roads must have been horrid through town and very slippery.
Wymondham Stuff - Mayor Dianne Fernee
Cllr Dianne Fernee speaks to Wymondham stuff at the start of her term as Mayor of the historic Norfolk market town of Wymondham.
Lowestoft Train Station
Train Service From Ipswich To Lowestoft Calling At Lowestoft
Places to see in ( Mildenhall - UK )
Places to see in ( Mildenhall - UK )
Mildenhall is a small market town and civil parish in Suffolk, England. It is part of the non-metropolitan district of Forest Heath and has a population of 9,906 people, increasing to 10,315 at the 2011 Census. The town is near the A11 and is located 60 km (37 mi) north-west of county town, Ipswich.
Mildenhall centres on a market place with a 16th-century hexagonal market cross and town pump. The town's market is held here on every Friday and originated as a weekly chartered market in, it is believed, the 15th century. In 1934, Mildenhall was the start point of the MacRobertson Air Race to Melbourne, Australia. Mildenhall has its own radio station, ZACK FM (Forest Heath Public Radio), broadcasting on 105.3 FM; the transmitter is located at the top of St Mary's Church and radiates 100 W. The station format is classic and current hits plus specialist shows, and broadcasts 24 hours a day with a mix of music, news and information Mildenhall is mentioned in passing in the Pink Floyd song 'Let There Be More Light' on the 1968 album A Saucerful of Secrets as a speculated location for first contact between humanity and extraterrestrial life.
The town has a bus station which was completed in 2005. Regular bus services run to the neighbouring towns of Brandon, Bury St. Edmunds, Newmarket and Thetford. National Express operate daily coach services to Norwich, London (Victoria Coach Station), Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted Airports. Mildenhall railway station was the terminus of the Cambridge to Mildenhall railway until its closure in 1962.
Mildenhall has a Non-League football club [Mildenhall Town F.C.] who play at Recreation Way. It also has one of the region's leading cricket clubs, Mildenhall Cricket Club, playing at Wamil Way. In 2016 the 1XI won the Two Counties Championship and was promoted to the East Anglian Premier Cricket League. Notable players have included England international Tymal Mills, England Lions' Tom Westley and Essex Women's Lilly Reynolds. There is a leisure centre on Bury Road which is about 5–10 minutes away from the town square.
Mildenhall is perhaps most famous for the discovery in 1942 of the Mildenhall Treasure. Now at the British Museum, the treasure is a hoard of Roman silver objects buried in the 4th century. In 1946 the discovery was made public and the treasure acquired by the British Museum; Roald Dahl wrote an article about the find which was published firstly in the Saturday Evening Post, and later as The Mildenhall Treasure (a short story) in his short story collection The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More.
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Train appears through the fog, Wymondham station
Emerging through the January fog, here is a Greater Anglia Class 170 - the Cambridge to Norwich service, filmed at Wymondham. The train appears in the fog (or morning mist) and then stops on Platform 1 of Wymondham railway station in Norfolk, England.
Recorded on an iPhone 4S by Ian Bullock, January 6, 2013.
Fakenham Easter Criterium and Run route 27 March 2016
Fakenham Easter Criterium and Run route 27 March 2016. This is the course for our Easter run and ride. On the day it will be traffic free and the roads will be closed.
Anglia Halifax People's Park
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Biker Cam 60 - Dereham Road
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Tour of Britain 2011 Day 4 Welshpool to Caerphilly
Filmed on the A483 between Newtown and Crossgates.
This video has some test elements of Picture in Picture and Chromakey as this is the 1st time I've experimented with these.
Can you spot the cycle racer who is relieving himself as he passes the camera?
The Final video of a CL755.
This is my last video of 2019, and the last video of a Class 755.
I`m bored with them now.
Filmed at Breydon Junction and Great Yarmouth. 30/12/2019
3car 170 at Wymondham
3car 170 at Wymondham
UFO seen over Norfolk - 13th October 2009
On 13th October 2009 at 18.39 my son noticed a bright light in the sky over the skies of Wymondham. Initially I thought it was a plane but then I wasnt so sure. After a while the bright light had gone. I managed to find it again and upon zooming in , the lighthad gone out and the black shadow just zoomed away. . Was it a UFO? I doubt it, but I'm not 100% what it was.
37419 one slip Lingwood 2P33 09/11/16
37419 delivers one slip from Lingwood whilst working Greater Anglia 2P33 1817 Great Yarmouth to Norwich on 09/11/2016.
Binham Priory & The Binham Cross
Binham Priory is full of amazing stories and legends of ghostly monks and fiddlers. Let me tell you all about them before taking a visit to the nearby Binham Market Cross.
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170 270 departing Thetford Stn
My first video in ages, sorry for the shake i had no tripod.
This train has very dusty seats.
NEA 170272
A Norwich bound NEA 170272 arrives and departs Wymondham
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