Wymington

Wymington is a village and civil parish in the Bedfordshire district of Bedford in England. It is in the north of Bedfordshire, near the county border with Northamptonshire, and the nearest town is Rushden in Northants, about two miles north. Other nearby places are Podington, to the south-west, and Farndish to the west.

Wymington was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as a parish within the Hundred of Willey. [British History Online - Parishes and dates [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=42376] ] Wymington's history dates back to 1014 when early settlers from nearby hamlets situated on the local brook (now Rushden and Sharnbrook) were banished from the hamlets. They named the settlement, roughly half way between the brooks, Wignalton after the founding settler Edward Wignal. The name of the village was latter changed to Wymington, by a local pastor, due to the negative reputation of the early gypsy settlers.

Wymington, although in Bedfordshire, has a Northamptonshire area code and postcode.

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