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Wramplingham is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It is situated on the River Tiffey some 4 miles (6.4 km) north of Wymondham and 7 miles (11 km) west of Norwich. The civil parish has an area of 3.47 square kilometres and in 2001 had a population of 110 in 44 households, increasing to a population of 115 in 51 households at the 2011 Census. For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the district of South Norfolk.^{[citation needed]}

Wramplingham
St Peter and Paul church
Wramplingham Location within Norfolk
Area	3.47 km2 (1.34 sq mi)
Population	115 (2011)[1]
• Density	33/km2 (85/sq mi)
OS grid reference	TG112063
Civil parish	Wramplingham
District	South Norfolk
Shire county	Norfolk
Region	East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	WYMONDHAM
Postcode district	NR18
Police	Norfolk
Fire	Norfolk
Ambulance	East of England
List of places UK England Norfolk 52.61339°N 1.11814°E / 52.61339; 1.11814

Heritage

The village name means "Homestead/village" or "hemmed-in land", with an obscure first element that is possibly a folk-name or place-name.[2]

The church of Wramplingham St Peter and St Paul is one of 124 existing round-tower churches in Norfolk.^{[citation needed]}

Wramplingham Mill was a three-storey weatherboarded corn mill, demolished in 1945.[3]

Bill Bryson (born 1951), a British-American writer who gained sudden popularity, lived in Wramplingham between 2003 and 2013.[4]

References

• ^ Ordnance Survey (1999). OS Explorer Map 237 - Norwich. ISBN 0-319-21868-6.
• ^ Office for National Statistics & Norfolk County Council (2001). Census population and household counts for unparished urban areas and all parishes. Retrieved 2 December 2005.

External links

Media related to Wramplingham at Wikimedia Commons

• Map sources for Wramplingham.
• Information from Genuki Norfolk on Wramplingham.
• St Peter and Paul on the European Round Tower Churches website
• Wramplingham Mill
• Barford & Wramplingham Village Hall Website for the two villages with regularly updated event information.

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