Chartered Surveyors Wymondham Norfolk

Approximate Population: 12,539

The civil parish of Wymondham has an area of 44.31 km2 (17.11 sq mi) and in the 2001 census had a population of 12,539 in 5,477 households. This relatively large parish includes one nearby village, Spooner Row.

Wymondham is governed by a town council of 15 councillors. The town is split into five wards each of which returns three members. Since the last election (2007) fourteen councillors are members of the Conservative Party and one is from the Liberal Democrats. The current mayor is Len Elston.

For the purposes of local government, Wymondham civil parish falls within the district of South Norfolk returning five district councillors, one for each ward.The town as a whole returns one county councillor to Norfolk County Council – Daniel Cox, who is also the Leader of Norfolk County Council.

In the town centre there is a market cross, which is now used as a Tourist Information Centre and is owned by the Town Council. The original building was destroyed in the Great Fire of Wymondham in 1615; the present building was rebuilt between 1617-18 at a cost of £25-7-0d with funds loaned by local man, Philip Cullyer. The stilted building was like many others designed to protect valuable documents from both flood and vermin. According to T.F. Thistleton Dyer’s “English Folklore” [London, 1878], live rats were nailed by their tails to the side of the building by way of a deterent. This bizarre superstition ended in 1902 after a child was bitten, later to die of blood-poisoning.

Chartered Surveyors Wymondham Norfolk