Little Wymondley

Little Wymondley
St Mary's Church, Little Wymondley
Little Wymondley is located in Hertfordshire
Little Wymondley
Little Wymondley
Location within Hertfordshire
Population955 (2011 Census)[1]
OS grid referenceTL216274
Civil parish
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townHitchin
Postcode districtSG4
Dialling code01438
PoliceHertfordshire
FireHertfordshire
AmbulanceEast of England
UK Parliament
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51°55′56″N 0°14′02″W / 51.93217°N 0.23387°W / 51.93217; -0.23387

Little Wymondley is a village and former civil parish situated between Hitchin and Stevenage, now in the parish of Wymondley, in the North Hertfordshire district, in the county of Hertfordshire, England.[2] Paradoxically, it has a larger population than its near neighbour Great Wymondley. At the 2011 Census the population of the built-up area of Little Wymondley was 995.[1] In 1931 the parish had a population of 445.[3]

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

Little Wymondley has several interesting houses, including the moated Bury of the 16th and 17th centuries, the fine 17th century Hall, the late Georgian Wymondley House, and Wymondley Priory, an early 13th century foundation turned into a house in the 16th and 17th centuries. The Church of St Mary the Virgin, Little Wymondley, is a Grade II* listed building.[7]

From 1799 until 1832/33, Wymondley House at Little Wymondley was the location of a dissenting academy for the education of future nonconformist ministers. The academy went under various names, including Wymondley College.[8][9]

  1. ^ a b "Little Wymondley built-up area". NOMIS. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 5 November 2021.
  2. ^ Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 166 Luton & Hertford (Hitchin & St Albans) (Map). Ordnance Survey. 2012. ISBN 9780319232095.
  3. ^ "Population statistics Little Wymondley AP/CP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 1 November 2022.
  4. ^ "(Great and Little) Wymondley".
  5. ^ Fitzpatrick-Matthews, Keith (2020). "The Archaeology of the Wymondleys".
  6. ^ "Little Wymondley Ancient Parish / Civil Parish". A Vision of Britain through Time. GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 5 November 2021.
  7. ^ "Church of St Mary the Virgin".
  8. ^ "Wymondley Academy (1799-1833)". Dissenting Academies Online. Queen Mary Centre for Religion and Literature in English. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
  9. ^ Page, William, ed. (1912). "Parishes: Little Wymondley". A History of the County of Hertford. Vol. 3. pp. 185–191.