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Great Wymondley, the Glossary

Great Wymondley is a village and former civil parish situated near Hitchin, now in the parish of Wymondley, www.wymondley.org in the North Hertfordshire district, in the county of Hertfordshire, England.^[1]

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36 relations: Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, Apse, Baldock, Boulder clay, Centuriation, Chancel, Church of St Mary the Virgin, Great Wymondley, Civil parish, Domesday Book, Field system, Frederic Seebohm (historian), Graveley, Hertfordshire, Great Britain Historical GIS, Gromatici, Henry VIII, Hertfordshire, Hitchin, Hitchin and Harpenden (UK Parliament constituency), Jugerum, Listed building, Little Wymondley, Metropolitan Green Belt, Michael Wood (historian), Motte-and-bailey castle, Norman architecture, North Hertfordshire, Open-field system, Purwell Ninesprings, River Purwell, Roman roads, Scheduled monument, Tudor architecture, Wallington, Hertfordshire, Wymondley, Wymondley Castle, Wymondley Roman Villa.
Former civil parishes in Hertfordshire
North Hertfordshire District

Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain

The settlement of Great Britain by diverse Germanic peoples led to the development of a new Anglo-Saxon cultural identity and shared Germanic language, Old English, which was most closely related to Old Frisian on the other side of the North Sea.

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Apse

In architecture, an apse (apses; from Latin absis, 'arch, vault'; from Ancient Greek ἀψίς,, 'arch'; sometimes written apsis;: apsides) is a semicircular recess covered with a hemispherical vault or semi-dome, also known as an exedra.

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Baldock

Baldock is a historic market town in the North Hertfordshire district of Hertfordshire, England. Great Wymondley and Baldock are former civil parishes in Hertfordshire and north Hertfordshire District.

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Boulder clay

Boulder clay is an unsorted agglomeration of clastic sediment that is unstratified and structureless and contains gravel of various sizes, shapes, and compositions distributed at random in a fine-grained matrix.

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Centuriation

Centuriation (in Latin centuriatio or, more usually, limitatio), also known as Roman grid, was a method of land measurement used by the Romans.

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Chancel

In church architecture, the chancel is the space around the altar, including the choir and the sanctuary (sometimes called the presbytery), at the liturgical east end of a traditional Christian church building.

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Church of St Mary the Virgin, Great Wymondley

St Mary's Church is an active Anglican church in Great Wymondley, Hertfordshire, England.

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Civil parish

In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government.

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Domesday Book

Domesday Book (the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book") is a manuscript record of the Great Survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 at the behest of King William the Conqueror.

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Field system

The study of field systems (collections of fields) in landscape history is concerned with the size, shape and orientation of a number of fields.

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Frederic Seebohm (historian)

Frederic Arthur Seebohm (23 November 1833 – 6 February 1912) was a British economic historian.

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Graveley, Hertfordshire

Graveley is a village and civil parish about four miles east of Hitchin and two miles north of Stevenage in Hertfordshire, England. Great Wymondley and Graveley, Hertfordshire are villages in Hertfordshire.

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Great Britain Historical GIS

The Great Britain Historical GIS (or GBHGIS) is a spatially enabled database that documents and visualises the changing human geography of the British Isles, although is primarily focussed on the subdivisions of the United Kingdom mainly over the 200 years since the first census in 1801.

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Gromatici

Gromatici (from Latin groma or gruma, a surveyor's pole) or agrimensores was the name for land surveyors amongst the ancient Romans.

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Henry VIII

Henry VIII (28 June 149128 January 1547) was King of England from 22 April 1509 until his death in 1547.

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Hertfordshire

Hertfordshire (or; often abbreviated Herts) is a ceremonial county in the East of England and one of the home counties.

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Hitchin

Hitchin is a market town in the North Hertfordshire district of Hertfordshire, England. Great Wymondley and Hitchin are former civil parishes in Hertfordshire and north Hertfordshire District.

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Hitchin and Harpenden (UK Parliament constituency)

Hitchin and Harpenden was a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament from 2017 until its abolition for the 2024 general election by Bim Afolami, a Conservative.

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Jugerum

The jugerum or juger (iūgerum, iūgera, iūger, or iugus) was a Roman unit of area, equivalent to a rectangle 240 Roman feet in length and 120 feet in width (about 71×35½m), i.e. 28,800 square Roman feet (pedes quadratum) or about hectare (0.623 acre).

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Listed building

In the United Kingdom, a listed building is a structure of particular architectural and/or historic interest deserving of special protection.

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Little Wymondley

Little Wymondley is a village and former civil parish situated between Hitchin and Stevenage, now in the parish of Wymondley, in the North Hertfordshire district, in the county of Hertfordshire, England. Great Wymondley and Little Wymondley are former civil parishes in Hertfordshire, north Hertfordshire District and villages in Hertfordshire.

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Metropolitan Green Belt

The Metropolitan Green Belt is a statutory green belt around London, England.

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Michael Wood (historian)

Michael David Wood, (born 23 July 1948) is an English historian and broadcaster.

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Motte-and-bailey castle

A motte-and-bailey castle is a European fortification with a wooden or stone keep situated on a raised area of ground called a motte, accompanied by a walled courtyard, or bailey, surrounded by a protective ditch and palisade.

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Norman architecture

The term Norman architecture is used to categorise styles of Romanesque architecture developed by the Normans in the various lands under their dominion or influence in the 11th and 12th centuries.

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North Hertfordshire

North Hertfordshire is one of ten local government districts in the county of Hertfordshire, England. Great Wymondley and North Hertfordshire are north Hertfordshire District.

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Open-field system

The open-field system was the prevalent agricultural system in much of Europe during the Middle Ages and lasted into the 20th century in Russia, Iran, and Turkey.

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Purwell Ninesprings

Purwell Ninesprings is a nature reserve managed by the Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust on the edge of Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England.

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River Purwell

The River Purwell is a chalk stream in Hertfordshire, England.

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Roman roads

Roman roads (viae Romanae; singular: via Romana; meaning "Roman way") were physical infrastructure vital to the maintenance and development of the Roman state, and were built from about 300 BC through the expansion and consolidation of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Wymondley

Great Wymondley, the Glossary

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Former civil parishes in Hertfordshire

North Hertfordshire District

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