WORMEGAY, a parish in Downham district, Nor folk; 3½ miles E by N of Watlington r. station, and 6 SSE of Lynn. Post town, Lynn. Acres, 2,788. Real property, £4,024. Pop., 423. Houses, 99. The manor belongs to D. H. L. Warren, Esq. A black friary was founded here in the time of Richard I., and became a cell to Pentney in 1468. There was also a castle. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £56. Patron, the Bishop of N. The church was reported in 1859 as bad. There are a national school, and charities £10.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))