Whimpwell / Whympewell / Wimpwell / Wimpwella

INFORMATION

Font ID: 18876WHI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church [disappeared]
Site Location: Norfolk, East Anglia, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Disappeared hamlet originally located near Happisburgh and Eccles-by-the-Sea
Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of Norwich]
Historical Region: Hundred of Happing
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (was there a church here?)
Font Notes:
Whimpwell appears in 2 entries in Domesday Book [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TG3829/whimpwell/] [accessed 16 December 2013] but neither mentions a church or cleric in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "In the survey I find mention made of the town of Wimpwell, of which the abbot of St. Bennet was lord [...] This village is now lost, and the land belonging to it is included, and now part of Hapesburgh; and in the 32d of Henry VI [i.e., 1454] I find Whympewell field in Hapesburgh, mentioned, and lands sold there."

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 401855 5852106

REFERENCES

  • Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810, vol. 9: 301 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78548] [accessed 16 December 2013]