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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Wormegay like this:
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.
Wormegay is now part of KINGS LYNN AND WEST NORFOLK District. Click here for graphs and data of how KINGS LYNN AND WEST NORFOLK has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Wormegay itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Wormegay, in Kings Lynn and West Norfolk and Norfolk | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/2260
Date accessed: 09th April 2026
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