Wymondham Walk: Town Centre【4K】

Описание: Located in the East Anglian county of Norfolk, and just under 10 miles southwest of Norwich, is the town of Wymondham.

The first thing you need to know about Wymondham is its pronunciation. It is pronounced 'WIN-dum', so it pretty much rhymes with 'Swindon'. Now that you know how to avoid offending the locals, let's talk about its history.

Wymondham grew around a Benedictine priory founded in 1107 AD. Although the building was part-destroyed during Henry VIII's Dissolution of the Monasteries, the west tower remains intact, and to this day forms Wymondham Abbey, the Anglican parish church for the town.

Wymondham was granted a market charter in 1204 under King John. One of the most striking landmarks of the town is its market cross which was built in 1617 to replace a previous incarnation that was destroyed in the Great Fire of Wymondham in 1615. Standing on Market Place, it is a notable example of an English buttercross - a structure under which people from neighbouring villages would gather to buy and sell butter and other dairy products, typically in medieval times.

One notable building that survived the fire of 1615 is The Green Dragon. This pub on Church Street (seen at the 4-minute mark) dates all the way back to 1371.

Wymondham became a centre for woodturning, i.e. producing wooden objects on a lathe with rotational symmetry, e.g. chair legs, door knobs, spindles etc. From this it branched out into brush-making, with factories in operation up until the late 20th century.

The railway first came to Wymondham in 1845, linking it up with Norwich to the east and Ely to the west. Over the years the population of Wymondham has expanded steadily owing to its proximity to cities such as Norwich and Cambridge. It is also around 5 miles from the headquarters of Lotus Cars, who are based in the nearby village of Hethel.

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Filmed: 6th May 2021

Link to the walk on Google Maps: https://goo.gl/maps/mPYVmvnhEKhRqiV66

Filmed on a Sony FDR-AX700 with a Zhiyun Crane 2 and a Sony ECM-XYST1M Stereo Microphone.

TIMESTAMPS:

0:00 Pople Street
0:21 Town Green
1:45 Middleton Street
3:41 Church Street
3:58 Green Dragon (built 1371)
4:09 Church Street
4:40 Middleton Street
4:48 Market Street
6:22 Market Place
7:43 Fairland Street
9:00 Fairland Hill
9:52 Avenue Road
11:11 Elm Terrace
11:46 Bridewell Street
12:46 Market Place