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Wymeswold local history

Wymeswold census returns 1841 to 1901

Wymeswold parish registers 1560 onwards

Wymeswold marriage registers 1560 to 1916


Articles about Wymeswold from
A Portrait of Wymeswold:

  1. Prehistory of Wymeswold
  2. Medieval Wymeswold
  3. St Mary's church
  4. Tombstones
  5. Sunday schools
  6. Nonconformists in Wymeswold
  7. Village charities
  8. Witches
  9. Interesting buildings
  10. Wymeswold Hall
  11. Wymeswold dairy
  12. Windmills
  13. Village pound
  14. Stocks and stockwell
  15. Wimeswold Gaslight and Coke Co.
  16. Changes in agriculture
  17. Framework knitters
  18. Population changes
  19. Education


Articles about Wymeswold from
Wolds Reflections, 2000 Years of the Wolds, Wolds Historical Organisation Newsletters and The Wolds Historian:

  1. The ancient Wolds
  2. Thorpe in the Glebe
  3. The Wymeswold skull
  4. Wolds ghosts
  5. Wymeswold's wells
  6. Joan Grove's will
  7. Pugin and the windows of St Mary's Church, Wymeswold
  8. A boy's life
  9. A courtship of only sixteen hours
  10. A letter from the bursar
  11. Apprentices in Wymeswold
  12. Before the Milk Marketing Board
  13. Bomber crash in Wymeswold
  14. Buying a piece of history
  15. Charity Accounts for Wymeswold 1854
  16. Family heirlooms
  17. Field names in Wymeswold
  18. Fire! Fire!
  19. Good advice
  20. Hall Close
  21. Long service
  22. More long service
  23. Obituary for Alec Moretti
  24. Archaeological activities in Wymeswold
  25. Oldest evidence of Wymeswold village
  26. Royal Observer Corps
  27. St Mary's before restoration
  28. St Mary's restoration by A.W.N. Pugin
  29. St Mary's chalice
  30. St Mary's church silver
  31. St Mary's sconces
  32. Temperance in Wymeswold
  33. The centenary we missed
  34. The dangers of life in 19th century Wymeswold
  35. The Glebe
  36. The only Wymeswold centenarian so far
  37. Widow's Close
  38. William Stukeley's journey along the Fosse Way
  39. Wymeswold in 1900
  40. Wymeswold census 1901
  41. Wymeswold airfield
  42. Wymeswold occupations in 1851 anfd 1891
  43. Wymeswold population changes
  44. Wymeswold represented at the Battle of Waterloo
  45. Wymeswold school log books (see also a summary of the first thirty-or-so years of the Wymeswold School Logbook)
  46. Wymeswold Hall (now Hall Field)
  47. Wymeswold Field Walking Survey Report


Information published online only

  1. 'Boys will be boys'
  2. Bill McBean's working 1930s Bedford WS van
  3. George Harrison's Albion LH463s travelling hardware shop van
  4. Wolds absconders' index
  5. Sister's Well
  6. The Hermitage, Wymeswold, [now Wymeswold House] in the 1930s
  7. Wymeswold Bowls Club histories: 1937–1987 and another published in 2000
  8. When James Ella 'went to ground'
  9. Wymeswold's 1988 Carnival
  10. The Hermitage, Wymeswold, in the 1930s
  11. Romans in a Wymeswold garden and Wymeswold's 'Roman' burial
  12. early seventeenth century constable's accounts for Wymeswold
  13. Wymeswold pubs
  14. prehistoric flints from Wymeswold
  15. Greek copper alloy coin of Ptolemy VI found near Wymeswold
  16. Rev Henry Alford
  17. Wymeswold Washdyke Community Orchard
  18. Ivor Brown (1927–2005)
  19. Wymeswold people with Wikipedia entries
  20. Brown's pharmaceutical day book
  21. Vicars of Wymeswold
  22. Wymeswold's pinfold in recent decades
  23. Wymeswold's pinfold's nearest 'rivals'
  24. Index to S.P. Potter's A History of Wymeswold (published 1915)
  25. Wymeswold Enclosure Commissioners
  26. Primrose products labels and Bartram's Bread pencil
  27. The lost mill pond on the Mantle
  28. Wymeswold pubs 'poem'
  29. Deeds for 27 Brook Street, Wymeswold
  30. programme for 1983 Rempstone Steam Fair
  31. 1990s Wymeswold pantomimes
  32. When Wymeswold's Lord of the Manor was up for sale
  33. Vernemetum in the seventh century
  34. Wymeswold Workhouse
  35. Wymeswold Manor Court 1724/5
  36. Old postcards of Wymeswold
  37. Wimeswold Gaslight & Coke Company
  38. proposed North Leicestershire Railway
  39. Wymeswold's Youth Hostel in 1946
  40. Far Street Wymeswold in 1951
  41. A building stone survey of St Mary's church, Wymeswold


See also:


External links relevant to Wymeswold:


If you have any information or photographs about Wymeswold village history then please email Bob Trubshaw.