Whimpwell / Whympewell / Wimpwell / Wimpwella

INFORMATION

FontID: 18876WHI

Object Type: Baptismal Font1?

Church/Chapel: Parish Church [disappeared]

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Disappeared hamlet originally located near Happisburgh and Eccles-by-the-Sea

Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of Norwich]

Historical Region: Hundred of Happing

Century and Period: Medieval

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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