Editing Wymondham (section)

===Later Wymondham===
In 1785, a prison was built in line with the ideas of the prison reformer [[John Howard (prison reformer)|John Howard]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.heritage.norfolk.gov.uk/record-details?MNF13361|title=MNF13361 – Norfolk Heritage Explorer |website=www.heritage.norfolk.gov.uk |access-date=2019-10-15}}</ref> The first in England to have separate cells for prisoners, it was widely copied there and in the United States.<ref name=":0"/><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.wymondhamheritagemuseum.co.uk/?p=about.wymondham.bridewell |title=About Wymondham Bridewell |website=www.wymondhamheritagemuseum.co.uk |access-date=2019-10-15}}</ref> It now serves as [[Wymondham Bridewell|Wymondham Heritage Museum]].

The collapse of the woollen industry in the mid-19th century led to poverty. In 1836 there were still 600 hand looms, but by 1845 only 60. The town became a backwater in [[Victorian era|Victorian times]], untouched by development elsewhere.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Wymondham: a century remembered |last=Yaxley, Philip |date=1999 |publisher=Nostalgia |isbn=0-947630-26-0 |location=Toftwood |pages=94 |oclc=43418889}}</ref>

The [[Norwich & Brandon Railway]] opened in 1845 and a branch north to [[Dereham]] and [[Wells-next-the-Sea]] in 1847. Another branch opened in 1881 ran south to the [[Great Eastern Main Line]] at [[Forncett]].

The [[Murders at Stanfield Hall]] occurred on 28 November 1848.

In 1943, a military hospital at Morley was handed to the [[United States Army Air Forces]]. Over 3,000 patients were treated there after [[Normandy landings|D-Day]]. It was later converted for use by [[Wymondham College]].<ref>{{Cite book |title=Wymondham: a century remembered |last=Yaxley, Philip |date=1999 |publisher=Nostalgia |isbn=0-947630-26-0 |location=Toftwood |pages=46 |oclc=43418889}}</ref>

For much of the 20th century, there were two brush factories together employing up to 1,000 people. They both closed in the 1980s and the land was turned over to housing.<ref name=":13">{{Cite book |title=Wymondham: a century remembered |last=Yaxley, Philip |date=1999 |publisher=Nostalgia |isbn=0-947630-26-0 |location=Toftwood |pages=77–78 |oclc=43418889}}</ref>