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One of their first targets was Sir John Flowerdew, a lawyer and landowner at Hethersett who was unpopular for his role as overseer of the demolition of Wymondham Abbey ( part of which was the parish church ) during the dissolution of the monasteries and for enclosing land.
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 aims of the charity are " to preserve and to renovate reconstruct and operate for the benefit of the people of the County of Norfolk and of the nation at large, whatever of the historical, architectural and constructional heritage that may exist of the permanent way, track, buildings ( including any building as defined in Section 336 ( 1 ) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 ), bridges, operating equipment and rolling stock once forming part of or connected with or adjacent to the Great Eastern Railway line running between County School at North Elmham in the County of Norfolk and Wymondham in the County of Norfolk.
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 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.
The school remained exclusively ' boarding ' until the early 1970s, when it was merged with the County Grammar School, which had been hosted at Wymondham on a ' temporary ' basis for the best part of ten years.

Wymondham and is
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 is governed by a town council of 15 councillors.
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.
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 was
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.
Wymondham held its annual feast on the weekend of 6 July 1549 and a play in honour of St Thomas Becket, the co-patron of Wymondham Abbey, was performed.
Kett was about 57 years old and was one of the wealthier farmers in Wymondham.
Kett had been prominent among the parishioners in saving their parish church when Wymondham Abbey was demolished and this had led to conflict with Flowerdew.
Kett was hanged from the walls of Norwich Castle on 7 December 1549 ; on the same day William was hanged from the west tower of Wymondham Abbey.
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 Priory was relatively small, initially for some twelve Benedictine monks, but grew in influence and wealth over the coming centuries.
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.
King Henry VIII's Dissolution of the Monasteries brought about the closure of Wymondham Abbey, which was surrendered to the King in 1538.
Kett's Rebellion was evidence of an undercurrent of ferment in sixteenth-century Wymondham.
The type at Wymondham was a “ Spaced Loop ” design newly developed by the National Physical Laboratory.
The station at Wymondham was located at latitude = 52. 583333, longitude = 1. 121667, just North of Tuttles Lane and East of Melton Road.
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.

Wymondham and home
A road is named for him in his home town, Wymondham.
He was brought home and buried at Wymondham Abbey.

Wymondham and one
For the purposes of local government, Wymondham civil parish falls within the district of South Norfolk returning five district councillors, one for each ward.
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 ".

Wymondham and .
Magic lantern at the Wymondham Museum.
It began at Wymondham on 8 July 1549 with a group of rebels destroying fences that had been put up by wealthy landowners.
Flowerdew bribed the rioters to leave his enclosures alone and instead attack those of Robert Kett at Wymondham.
Disputes between the Wymondham and St. Albans monks were quite common, and in 1448, following a successful petition to the king, the Pope granted Wymondham the right to become an Abbey in its own right.

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