Wymondley is a

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ...

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. The parish was created on 1 April 1937 as a merger of the two former parishes of

Great Wymondley Great Wymondley is a village and former civil parish situated near Hitchin, now in the parish of Wymondley,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. Paradoxically, it has a larger population ...

. Prior to the creation of North Hertfordshire in 1974, Wymondley was part of

Hitchin Rural District Hitchin Rural District was a rural district in Hertfordshire, England from 1894 to 1974, covering an area in the north of the county. Evolution The district had its origins in the Hitchin Rural Sanitary District. This had been created unde ...

. The population of the civil parish as of the 2011 census is 1,153. Wymondley was once the location of a

dissenting academy The dissenting academies were schools, colleges and seminaries (often institutions with aspects of all three) run by English Dissenters, that is, those who did not conform to the Church of England. They formed a significant part of England's edu ...

for the education of future

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ministers. The academy was active during 1799-1833 and went under various names, including

Wymondley College Wymondley College was a dissenting academy at Wymondley House in Little Wymondley, Hertfordshire, England. Intended for the education of future nonconformist ministers of religion, it was in operation from 1799 to 1833, when it relocated to Byn ...

Governance

North Hertfordshire District Council

Wymondley Parish is located within the local government district of

North Hertfordshire North Hertfordshire is a Non-metropolitan district, local government district in Hertfordshire, England. Its council is based in Letchworth. The district was formed on 1 April 1974 by the amalgamation of the Urban district (Great Britain and Ir ...

. The principal settlements of the Parish are Little Wymondley and the smaller Great Wymondley, as well as the hamlets of Todd's Green and Titmore Green. Wymondley forms part of Chesfield Ward; A Multi Member Ward represented by two Councillors
Cllr George Davies
(

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) an
Cllr Terry Tyler
(

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))

Hertfordshire County Council

Wymondley is located within the

Hertfordshire County Council Hertfordshire County Council is the upper-tier local authority for the non-metropolitan county of Hertfordshire, in England, the United Kingdom. After the 2021 election, it consists of 78 councillors, and is controlled by the Conservative Party, ...

Division of Knebworth and Codicote and is represented b
Cllr Richard Thake
(

Parliamentary Representation

The Parish is represented in Parliament by

Bim Afolami Abimbola "Bim" Afolami (born 11 February 1986) is a British Conservative Party politician. He has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hitchin and Harpenden since the 2017 general election. Early life Afolami was born and brought up i ...

MP (

) who was first elected as the MP for

Hitchin and Harpenden Hitchin and Harpenden is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2017 by Bim Afolami, a Conservative. History The constituency was created for the 1997 general election from parts of several former Her ...

in 2017.

References

External links

Wymondley Parish Council
Civil parishes in Hertfordshire North Hertfordshire District {{Hertfordshire-geo-stub