The station at Wymondham was located at latitude = 52. 583333, longitude = 1. 121667, just North of Tuttles Lane and East of Melton Road.

The Wymondham railway station ( voted Best Small Station in the 2006 National Rail Awards ) possesses a piano showroom and a locally famous themed Brief Encounter restaurant.

* Wymondham railway station, Wymondham, England ( National Rail code station code )

Class 101 in early BR green and whiskers livery at Wymondham Abbey station, August 2009

On 11 April 1998 the sale of the route between Wymondham and Dereham to the Mid-Norfolk Railway Preservation Trust was completed, with the £ 100, 000 purchase price including Dereham station buildings and the of goods yard area.

Passenger services between Dereham and Wymondham commenced in 1999, with the opening of Wymondham Abbey railway station.

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.

Partially restored double-track section south of Wymondham Abbey railway station | Wymondham Abbey, Norfolk, UK on the Mid-Norfolk Railway

The village once had its own station, North Elmham railway station, on the Mid-Norfolk Railway line from Wymondham to Fakenham.

The nearest railway station is at Wymondham for the Breckland Line which runs between Norwich and Peterborough.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Kett's Oak, said to be the rallying point for the rebellion, may still be seen today on the B1172 road between Wymondham and Hethersett.

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.

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

Construction of this housing estate began after much opposition and, more recently, plans for a new housing estate on a green-field site on the Wicklewood-side of Wymondham.

A further, much larger development of 3, 000 homes, has been proposed for the South of Wymondham and has attracted tremendous local opposition.

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.

In 1882 the line between Dereham and Wymondham was doubled, to allow for the increasing levels of traffic.

The line to King's Lynn was closed in 1968, and the last passenger train on the Dereham to Wymondham line ran in 1969 although the railway remained open for freight until 1989.

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.

In 1977 the Wymondham, Dereham and Fakenham Railway Action Committee presented the Norfolk County Chief Planning Officer with a report putting the case for restoring rail passenger services between Norwich, Dereham and Fakenham East.

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.

Although the locomotive was too small to operate a scheduled service over the line it was used for a number of crew training runs, and, on Monday 12 June 2000, it became the first steam locomotive in preservation to operate over the entire route between Dereham and Wymondham.

A road is named for him in his home town, Wymondham.

He was brought up in Catton on the outskirts of Norwich and went to Wymondham College before going to study for a Ph. D. in fluid dynamics at Cambridge University ( Churchill College ) in 1982, although he did not complete his thesis and so did not become Dr. Gascoyne .< ref >

The Berkeley Baronetcy, of Wymondham in the County of Leicester, was created in the Baronetage of England on 29 June 1611 for Henry Berkeley of Wymondham, Leicestershire, a descendant of Thomas Berkeley, younger son of Thomas de Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley.