Editing Wymondham (section)

===Early modern period===
[[File:Cmglee Wymondham Market Cross.jpg|thumb|Wymondham Market Cross in September 2017]]
Wymondham Abbey was [[Dissolution of the Monasteries|dissolved]] in 1538 and the domestic buildings and monastic half of the church were gradually demolished. Loye Ferrers, the last Abbot, became Vicar when the post fell vacant, and the remaining church buildings continued in use as the parish church.

[[Robert Kett]] led a [[Kett's Rebellion|rebellion]] in 1549 of peasants and small farmers against enclosure of common land. His force of scarcely armed men held the city of Norwich for six weeks until defeated by the [[Edward VI of England|King's]] forces. He was hanged at [[Norwich Castle]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.britainexpress.com/History/tudor/ketts-rebellion.htm |title=Kett's Rebellion, 1549 {{!}} Tudor History |last=Express |first=Britain |website=Britain Express |language=en |access-date=2019-10-13}}</ref> and his brother William was hanged from the church west tower. Kett's Oak, ostensibly the rallying point of the rebellion, can be seen on the [[B roads in Zone 1 of the Great Britain numbering scheme|B1172]] road between Wymondham and Hethersett, part of an earlier main road to London.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.heritage.norfolk.gov.uk/record-details?MNF9451 |title=Kett's-Oak – Norfolk Heritage Explorer |website=www.heritage.norfolk.gov.uk |access-date=2019-10-13}}</ref>[[File:Cmglee Wymondham Bridewell Street.jpg|thumb|Bridewell Street in September 2017]]
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The town suffered a major fire beginning on Sunday, 11 June 1615. Losses included the Market Cross, the vicarage, the old town hall and the schoolhouse. Buildings that survived include the ''Green Dragon'' inn. Thereafter, 327 inhabitants – some 55 per cent of residents at the time – made claims for lost goods and houses.<ref>{{Cite book |title=A fier devised of the divell: the great fire of Wymondham 1615 |last=Wilson, John, 1936 October 20 |others=Wymondham Heritage Society |date=November 2013 |isbn=978-1-901553-10-9 |location=Wymondham, Norfolk |pages=15 |oclc=938789222}}</ref> The register of St Andrew's Church in Norwich records that John Flodder and others were executed for arson on 2 December 1615.<ref>{{Cite book |title=A fier devised of the divell: the great fire of Wymondham 1615 |last=Wilson, John, 1936 October 20 |others=Wymondham Heritage Society |date=November 2013 |isbn=978-1-901553-10-9 |location=Wymondham, Norfolk |pages=4–5 |oclc=938789222}}</ref> Rebuilding varied in pace. A new Market Cross was completed in 1617, but in 1621 there were still some 15 properties to be rebuilt.<ref>{{Cite book |title=A fier devised of the divell: the great fire of Wymondham 1615 |last=Wilson, John, 1936 October 20 |others=Wymondham Heritage Society |date=November 2013 |isbn=978-1-901553-10-9 |location=Wymondham, Norfolk |pages=25–26 |oclc=938789222}}</ref>

In 1695, the Attleborough road was the second British [[Turnpike trusts|turnpike]] built, pre-dated only by the [[Great North Road (Great Britain)|Great North Road]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.heritage.norfolk.gov.uk/record-details?MNF12653 |title=MNF12653 – Norfolk Heritage Explorer |website=www.heritage.norfolk.gov.uk |access-date=2019-10-14}}</ref>