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Rh WYMERING. 887 WYNNSTAY. par., which includes the tythg. of Deptford, is situated on the Great Western road, and is watered by the river Wylye, an affluent of the Avon. The goil is a black loam on a substratum of chalk. About a milo from th"b village is a British encampment called Badbury-Rings, enclosing about 17 acres, and 2 miles from Deptford Inn is Yarnbrough Castle, a large Roman encampment. Wylye gives name to a deanery in the archdeaconry and diocese of Salisbury. The living is a rect.* in the dioc. of Salisbury, val. 500. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, was rebuilt in 1844. There is a Dissenting chapel and a National school. The charities produce about 10 per annum. The Earl of Pembroke as lord of the manor. WYMERING, a par. in the hund. of Portsdown, co. Hants, 4 milea E. of Fareham, 4 from Portsmouth, and 1 mile N.W. of Cosham railway station. The par., which is situated on Portsmouth Harbour, under Ports- down Hill, includes the northern end of Portsea island, the islets of Great and Little Horsea, and the vil. of Hilsea, where are tho Royal Artillery barracks built in 1854, and strong lines of fortifications which have recently been greatly strengthened. The population in 18C1 was 1,071. The living is a vie.* in tho dioc. of Winchester, annexed to the rect. of Widley, joint val. 678. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, or to SS. Peter and Paul, is an ancient Norman structure. Tho Independents have a chapel. There is a National school, also almshouses for 4 widows, founded by Mrs. Honor Wait in the reign of Elizabeth. The charities produce 15 per annum. Thomas Thistlewaite, Esq., is lord of the manor and chief landowner. WYMERSLEY, a hund. in co. Northampton, contains the pars, of Castle Ashby, Blisworth, Brafield, Cogen- hoc, Collingtree, Courteenhall, Dcnton, Grendon, Hardingstone, Horton, Great and Little Houghton, Hilton, Piddington, Preston Deanery, Quinton, Rothers- tliorpe, Whiston, Wootton, and Yardley Hastings, comprising 36,060 acres. WYMINGTON, a par. in the hund. of Willey, co. Bods, 12 miles N.W. of Bedford, and 3J S.W. of Highain Ferrars. The living is a rect.* in the dioc. of Ely, val. 100. The church, dedicated to St. Lawrence, is a structure of the 14th century, said to have been built by John Curteys, lord of the manor, and mayor of tho staple at Calais. In the interior are stalls, a stone font, and several brasses. WYMONDHAM, a par. in the hund. of Framland, co. Leicester, miles E. of Mclton-Mowbray. This old village is situated near the Oakham canal and river Eye, and is surrounded by its ancient walls. The sur- face is undulating, and the soil a mixture of clay and loam. The living is a rect.* in tho dioc. of Peter- borough, val. 400, in the patron, of the lord chancellor. The church is dedicated to St. Peter. There is a free school, founded and endowed by Sir John Sedley, in 1637, with an estate now producing 130 per annum. WYHONDHAM, a par. and market town in tho hund. of Forehoe, co. Norfolk, 10 miles S.W. of Nor- wich, and 100 from London by road, or 115J by the Great Eastern railway, which has a junction station I here where the Dereham branch turns oif. It is situated I on the river Yare, including the town of Wymondham and the "out-soken" composed of Downham, Market Street, Silfield, Suton, Town Green, and Wattlefield. It anciently belonged to William do Albini, who in 1130 founded a cell here to St. Alban's Abbey, endow- ing it with the wrecks on the coast and 2,000 eels from iy. In the 15th century tho cell grew into an independent abbey, and at the Dissolution its revenues were returned at 212, and the site given to Henry Earl of Surrey. The town was partially destroyed by fire in 1615, and was visited by the plague in 1631. Tho houses are irregularly built, and some of them of great antiquity, but the streets aro well lighted with gas from the works on the Fairland. At the entrance to the town, on the Norwich road, stands the bridewell, or house of correction, appropriated solely to female con- victs, who wash, sew, &c., for the prisoners confined in Norwich gaol, and near tho centre of the town is the ancient market cross, carved with devices representing various articles of turnery, once the staple trade, but now nearly extinct ; the manufacture of Indiana, crape, barege, paramattas, and other silk and woollen mixed goods, is carried on to a considerable extent for houses in Norwich ; there are also a brewery and numerous flour mills. The population of tho parish in 1861 was 5,000, and of the town 3,000. In the parish are Kim- bcrley Hall, tho seat of the Earl of Kimberloy, Burfield Hall, Stanfield Hall, Wattlefield Hall, and Cavick. Petty sessions are held on tho third Tuesday in every month, and a new county court monthly at the " King's Head Inn." Tho living is a vie.* in the dioc. of Nor- wich, in the patron, of the bishop. The parish church, dedicated to St. Mary tho Virgin and Thomas-a-Becket, includes tho tower and western portion of tho abbey church, and was repaired in 1845. It contains several Norman arches, an old font, and tombs of the founder, D'Albinis, Cliftons, Knevets, and Wyndhams of Fol- brigg, who tnko their name from this place. It was from tho steeple of this church that William Kelt was hung in 1549, brother to " Kelt the Tanner of Wy- mondham," tho remains of whoso house were not pulled down till 1844. The old chapel of St. Thomas-a-Becket is now unused and becoming dilapidated, but thcro is a modern chapel at Wattlefield, erected as a chapel- of-ease by J. Mitchell, Esq. The register commences in 1615. The Independents Wesleyans, Primitive Methodists, Baptists, Society of Friends, and Plymouth Brethren, have chapels. There is a free grammar school, founded by Edward VI., with an endowment of '200 per annum, and three scholarships at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Pcacham, who wrote the " Com- plete Gentleman," was master of this school; and Bentham, author of the "History of Ely," once vicar. Market day is Friday, but little business is now done. Fairs aro hold on 14th February and 17th May for cattl", and on Michaelmas day for pleasure. WYMONDLEY, GREAT, a par. in the hund. of Broadwater, co. Herts, 2 miles S.E. of Hitchin, and 2 N.W. of tho Stovenage station on tho Great Northern railway. It is mentioned in Domesday survey as Wymundilai, and was held by tho service of cup- bearer at the coronation. Tho manor was given by the Conqueror to the Argentines, from whom it passed to the Allingtons, Grosvenors, and Crachcrodes. The living is a vie.* in tho dioc. of Rochester, val., with Ippolitts consolidated, 320, in tho patron, of Trinity College, Cambridge. The register commences in 1599. There are National schools. The charities produce about 10 per annum. WYMONDLEY, LITTLE, a par. in the hund. of Broadwater, co. Herts, 2J miles S.E. of Hitchin, and 1 mile S. of Great Wymondley. It is situated on tho Hertford road, near the line of the Great Northern railway and the small river Iliz. Wymondley House was for some years the homo of Coward College, founded in 1729 by W. Coward, Esq., for the education of Pro- testant Dissenting ministers, and of which Dr. Dod- dridge was the first tutor, but in 1838 the college, with its library, museum, &c., was removed to Torringtou Square, London, and is now merged in New College, St. John's Wood. There are no remains of the priory of black canons founded by Richard Argentine in the reign of Henry III., the revenue of which at tho Dissolution was returned at 37 10. 6rf., but an ancient well and some avenues of stately box trees mark its site. The living, which was given to the Needhams, is a don. cur., val. 20. Tho church is dedicated to St. Mary the Virgin. The Baptists have a chapel. WYNFORD EAGLE. Set WINFOUD EAGLE, co. Dorset. WYNNSTAY, a demesne in co. Denbigh, 4 miles N. of Chirk. It is an ancient seat of the Wynns, on the river Dee, built at various periods, and contains a library rich in Welsh MSS., a portrait gallery, busts of Pitt, Lord Grenville, and others, and the Waterloo punch- bowl. The park, which is traversed by Wat's and OffVi