Did you know? ? ? ? Something interesting about Wymering Wymering was once called Wygmaer ingas, which means the people of Wygmaer in Saxon. The name slowly changed to Wymering. Saxon graves from the 7th century AD were found nearby on Portsdown. The large Manor estate existed before 1066 and is listed in the Domesday Book. It remained in royal hands until granted to loyal retainers. The fields surrounding Wymering were farmed until the 1920s, St Peter and Paul church begun in about 1180 but there was at least one earlier church of which no traces survive today. The church was extensively renovated in 1861. Wymering Churchyard may have been used since about 1200. It is much higher than the surrounding land and enclosed by a flint wall. There are many tombs worthy of a closer look. There are elegant Georgian Table tombs of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Eleven are Grade II listed monuments. Old Wymering Lane like Medina Road, may be an ancient trackway, leading from the pasture on the hill slopes to the marsh at the harbours edge. Medina road used to be the old Southampton road.This was once the only road through the village and probably existed long before it was mentioned in 1269. It became a turnpike road in 1810, with a locked gate across the road close to South Farm and a toll house for the toll collector. Wymering Upper Farm wall is a flint wall that marked the boundary of the farmyard. Upper Farm was the original Manor Farm but was demolished to make way for housing and the new Southampton Road around 1960. The flint wall is still there today. Wymering Manor dates from the 1580s, it was a timber framed building but has seen many changes and extensions over the years. South farm house,the smallest of Wymerings 3 farms was built around 1840. Wymering vicarage was built in 1750. Cow Lane was originally part of Wymering Lane. The railway bridge was built in 1848. In the early 20th century there was a Tea Garden on the Electricity Station site. A new council estate was begun at Wymering in the 1920s. In the 1930s the Isle Of Wight estate was built.
Posted on: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 21:01:31 +0000
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