Description
Wymondham, a township and a parish, with a village, in Leicestershire, 6 1/2 miles E of Melton Mowbray. It has a station on the Saxby and Bourn branch of the M.R., and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Oakham. Area, 2928 acres; population, 905. There is a parish council consisting of six members. The manor belongs to the Gretton family. Roman remains have been found. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough; gross value, £406 with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Peterborough. The church is a cruciform building in the Early English style, with W tower and spire, and was interiorly restored in 1864,1873, and 1893. There are Congregational and Wesleyan chapels, and an endowed grammar school.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
