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The rebellion is remembered in the names of schools, streets, pubs and a walking route in the Norwich and Wymondham area, including the Robert Kett Junior School in Wymondham, Dussindale Primary School in Norwich, the Robert Kett pub in Wymondham and Kett's Tavern in Norwich, and in a folk band, Lewis Garland and Kett's Rebellion, and a beer, Kett's Rebellion, by Woodforde's Brewery in Norwich.
* Wymondham Abbey in Norfolk is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, a Grade I Listed Building, and lies in Wymondham Conservation Area.
Wymondham Abbey ( pronounced Windham ) is situated in the town of Wymondham in Norfolk, England.
It is the Anglican parish church of Wymondham, but it started life as a Benedictine priory.
The monks had, apparently willingly, already signed the Oath of Supremacy, and were given generous pensions-Elisha Ferrers, the last Abbot, became Vicar of Wymondham ( the fine sixteenth century sedilia on the south side of the chancel is said to be his memorial ).
Wymondham () is a historic market town and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk.
Wymondham played a part in WWII that is very poorly documented, it was home to one of MI5's listening stations.
Nationally, Wymondham is in the Mid Norfolk constituency and is therefore represented at Westminster by George Freeman.
Wymondham Abbey is the Church of England parish church.
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.
Market Crosses can also be constructed from wood ; an example is at Wymondham, Norfolk.
Frances Pawlett ( or Paulet ), a skilled cheese maker, of Wymondham, is credited as the person who gave Stilton its first quality and shape standards.
The first turnpike road in England is reputed to have been created here at the end of the 17th century, Acts of Parliament were passed in 1696 and 1709, " For the repairing of the highway between Wymondham and Attleborough, in the County of Norfolk, and for including therein the road from Wymondham to Hethersett ".
The railway between Dereham and Wymondham has been preserved, and is now operated as a tourist line by the Mid-Norfolk Railway Preservation Trust.
: Situated about from Wymondham village, Cribb's Meadow is both a SSSI and a National Nature Reserve.
It is the southern section of the former Wymondham, Dereham, Fakenham and Wells-next-the-Sea line, opened by the Norfolk Railway in 1847 and closed to passengers in stages from 1964 to 1969 as part of the Beeching cuts.
The 11. 5 miles ( 18. 5 km ) line extends between Dereham and Wymondham ; and the Trust owns the further 6 miles ( 10 km ) of disused railway to County School station near North Elmham, although there is a break of around a mile between North Elmham and County School where the track is no longer in situ.

Wymondham and by
It began at Wymondham on 8 July 1549 with a group of rebels destroying fences that had been put up by wealthy landowners.
The monastery was founded in 1107 by William d ' Aubigny, Chief Butler to King Henry I. William was a prominent Norfolk landowner, with estates in Wymondham and nearby New Buckenham whose grandfather had fought for William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings.
Wymondham Abbey nave The monastery church was completed by about 1130, and originally was dedicated to the Virgin Mary.
This, too, was from time to time the cause of disputes which occasionally erupted into lawlessness, though the Vicar of Wymondham was appointed by the Abbot.
The type at Wymondham was a “ Spaced Loop ” design newly developed by the National Physical Laboratory.
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.
A campaign group known as " Fight for Wymondham " has been formed by local residents to oppose this development, on the grounds that it will destroy Wymondham's character as a historic market town and potentially overwhelm local services and pose a threat to wildlife.
The Monarchist League had become virtually dormant by the mid-1980s, although Michael Wynne-Parker continued to engage in debates on behalf of the league, such as the one in 1982 at Wymondham College, Norfolk, when the motion, proposed by a Mr. Matehall, a member of the Communist Party, was " This House would Abolish the Monarchy ".
Walsingham used to be connected to the railway network by the Norwich via Fakenham, Dereham and Wymondham route, but this was axed during the Beeching era in the late 1960s, in stages from 1964 to 1969.
The main religious houses in the medieval diocese were the Benedictine Abbeys of Bury St Edmunds, Wymondham, and St Benet's of Hulm, the cathedral priory of Norwich, along with the Cistercian Abbey of Sibton, the only Cistercian Abbey in East Anglia ( the ruins now privately owned by the Levett-Scrivener family ), and the abbeys of the Augustinian Canons at Wendling, Langley, and Laystone.
The 1973 oil crisis led to a meeting being held at Dereham in 1974 by the Railway Development Society in order to petition for the restoration of passenger services between Wymondham and Fakenham.
The ownership of the line between Wymondham and Dereham was passed from British Railways Board ( Residuary ) Limited to the Mid-Norfolk Railway Preservation Trust by Statutory Instrument 1997 No. 2262 on 23 September 1997.
The first preservation-era train to operate between Dereham and Wymondham ran on 8 February 1998, when a works train hauled by 20069 and Ruston & Hornsby 0-4-0 ' County School ran as part of preparations for a March freight test train.
The nearest railway station is at Wymondham, which is south-west of the village and gives access to local services operated by East Midlands Trains and Greater Anglia on the Breckland Line on the Norwich to Peterborough and Cambridge lines.

Wymondham and town
Kett's rebellion, or " the commotion time " as it was also called in Norfolk, began in July 1549 in the small market town of Wymondham, nearly ten miles south-west of Norwich.
The former town jail or bridewell now houses the Wymondham Heritage Museum.
Wildman was born to Jeffrey and Dorothy Wildman in the Norfolk town of Wymondham.
Legacies from the Medieval period include consolidation of village and market town patterns ; in Melton Mowbray, Bottesford, Wymondham, and Waltham-on-the-Wolds.
* Wymondham, a town in Norfolk, England
* Wymondham, Leicestershire, a town in Leicestershire, England
The town also hosts the headquarters of the Mid-Norfolk Railway, which runs trains over an 11. 5-mile railway to Wymondham, as well as owning the line 6 miles north to North Elmham and County School Station.
A road is named for him in his home town, Wymondham.

Wymondham and council
The new Mid Norfolk seat comprises the Breckland council wards from the old Mid Norfolk constituency added to a number of wards from around Wymondham that were part of South Norfolk constituency and are part of South Norfolk District Council.

Wymondham and 15
The Wymondham to Wells branch was opened in stages between 15 February 1847 and 1857, after Parliamentary consent was given in 1845.

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