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45-521: (Redirected from Szili ) Szily or Szili is a Hungarian habitational surname for someone from the village Szil . Notable persons with the surname include: János Szily (1735-1799), Hungarian Bishop József Szily (1913–1976), Hungarian chess master Katalin Szili (born 1956), Hungarian politician Pál Szily (1878–1945), Hungarian chemist [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with

90-581: A 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 King's forces. He was hanged at Norwich Castle 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 B1172 road between Wymondham and Hethersett, part of an earlier main road to London. The town suffered

135-401: A reredos by Ninian Comper can be seen. Cavick House, a Grade I listed building, dates from the early 18th century. It is a red-brick building with painted quoins and some original interior decoration. It had fallen into disrepair by 1999, but has since been restored. The nearby Cavick House Farmhouse, built in the early 18th century, is a Grade II listed building. Beckett's Chapel

180-589: A centre of woodturning and brush-making, retaining its brush factories until the late 20th century. New housing to the north and east of the town centre brought rapid expansion. Dual carriageways for the A11 and the development of rapid rail links to Norwich and Cambridge means Wymondham is now a commuter town. Major local employers include the headquarters of Norfolk Constabulary and the Lotus Cars factory at nearby Hethel . The ancient centre, much damaged in

225-410: A fire of 1615, contains landmarks and listed buildings that include the twin-towered Wymondham Abbey . Modern Wymondham continues to grow. The current local-authority action plan envisages building 2,200 new homes by 2026, while promoting it as "a forward-looking market town which embraces sustainable growth to enhance its unique identity and sense of community." The uncertain, Anglo-Saxon origins of

270-408: A form that varies significantly from the toponym that gave rise to them. Examples include Wyndham, derived from Wymondham , Anster from Anstruther , and Badgerly from Badgworthy . One must be cautious to interpret a surname as toponymic based on its spelling alone, without knowing its history. A notable example is the name of Jeanne d'Arc , which is not related to a place called Arc but instead

315-654: 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. The register of St Andrew's Church in Norwich records that John Flodder and others were executed for arson on 2 December 1615. Rebuilding varied in pace. A new Market Cross

360-538: A military hospital at Morley was handed to the United States Army Air Forces . Over 3,000 patients were treated there after D-Day . It was later converted for use by Wymondham College . 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. Wymondham has a town council responsible for local matters laid down by law, including

405-530: A new Norman priory in 1107, its church shared between the monks and the townspeople. This evolved over the centuries into the Wymondham Abbey seen today. Earthworks at Moot Hill are probably a medieval ring-work dating between 1088 and 1139. It is on the Historic England's Heritage at Risk register. The first market charter came from King John in 1204, although an earlier market

450-426: A plaque was attached to mark the 450th anniversary of Kett's Rebellion. In 2008, it became Wymondham Arts Centre. Original elements of the chapel, including an arch-braced hammerbeam roof , are still visible inside. It is a Grade I listed building. In 2018, it was placed on Historic England 's Heritage at Risk register, as it suffers from damp and is slowly decaying. The Market Cross was built in 1617–1618 after

495-605: A role in urban planning . It has 14 members elected every four years. Wymondham divides into four wards : North, East, Central and South. Spooner Row , though within the parish of Wymondham, elects its own community council. Wymondham civil parish falls in the district of South Norfolk , returning six district councillors. In elections in May 2023, Wymondham elected three Liberal Democrat District councillors, two Conservatives and one Labour. In Town Council elections fourteen councillors are returned. After May 2023 local elections,

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540-569: A sunken-featured building with Early and Middle Saxon pottery. Remains of a possible Late Saxon church were discovered during excavations at Wymondham Abbey in 2002. By 1086, Wymondham had 376 households (giving an estimated total population of 1,880), which put it among the top 20 per cent of settlements recorded in Domesday . The land was held by two feudal Lords: William the Conqueror and William de Warenne . The Saxon church made way for

585-462: Is Norfolk Constabulary . There is a retail area centred on the market square, with national-chain branches and independent shops and businesses. Traditionally, Wymondham was a centre of woodturning and brush-making; a spigot and spoon feature on the town sign to mark this. Major brush factories appeared, with railway sidings, saw mills and engineering workshops. These closed in late 20th century and were developed as housing. Wymondham war memorial

630-469: Is a 7.5 metres (8 yd) stone obelisk above an octagonal three-stepped base, at the junction of Vicar Street, Town Green and Middleton Street. Unveiled on 24 July 1921, and updated after World War II , it recalls 189 military and civilian deaths in the two World Wars. It is a Grade II listed feature. Wymondham Abbey , founded in 1107, is a Grade I listed building. Originally a Benedictine priory, it became an independent abbey in 1449. During this period

675-458: Is a conservation area and wildlife site managed locally as a "piece of informal, natural countryside for the general benefit and enjoyment of the people of Wymondham". The Tiffey Trails offer accessible walks, interpretation boards, wood-carvings, benches and waymarkers. In Spring 2022, a new Ketts County trail was added, forming a 16-mile walk starting at Becketswell near the Abbey. This is part of

720-438: Is a distorted patronymic (see " Name of Joan of Arc "). Likewise, it has been suggested that a toponymic cannot be assumed to be a place of residence or origin: merchants could have adopted a toponymic by-name to associate themselves with a place where they never resided. In Polish, a toponymic surname may be created by adding "(w)ski" or "cki" at the end. For example, Maliszewski is a toponymic surname associated with one of

765-411: Is a scheduled monument. The east end of the church was demolished at the dissolution. The surviving 70 metres (77 yd)-long building is about half the original length. The remainder survived the dissolution and continued in use as the local Church of England parish church . Some elements of the original Norman architecture are visible externally, while internally a 15th-century hammerbeam roof and

810-413: Is thought to have been founded in the late 12th century by the son of William d'Aubigny and founder of Wymondham Abbey. The current chapel dates largely to about 1400, when it was rebuilt. In the post-Reformation period it was turned into a school and also used for a time as a lock-up for remand prisoners. Restoration in 1873 was followed by use as a public hall, a school and Wymondham's library. In 1999,

855-507: Is well-educated: 27 per cent have post-18 qualifications. The following table outlines the population change in the town since 1801, with slow growth, then decline in the 19th century, followed by recovery and rapid growth by the end of the 20th century. Wymondham is a commuter town mainly for Norwich, Cambridge and London. The 2011 census reported as the commonest employment sectors the wholesale and retail trade (15.4%), health and social work (13.6%) and education (11.3%). A major employer

900-541: The A11 road to London. The parish, one of Norfolk's largest, includes rural areas to the north and south, with hamlets of Suton, Silfield, Spooner Row and Wattlefield. It had a population of 14,405 in 2011, of whom 13,587 lived in the town itself. The community developed during the Anglo-Saxon period and expanded with the establishment of a priory in 1107 and a market in 1204. Industrially, Wymondham became known as

945-462: The Bronze Age appears in a number of ring ditches , enclosures and linear crop marks . Objects found include an arrowhead, fragments of rapiers , assorted metal tools and pottery sherds . Iron Age artefacts were investigated systematically while the A11 bypass was being built in the early 1990s. There are postholes , quarries and evidence of iron smelting and bone working. Objects from

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990-412: The aristocratic societies of Europe, both nobiliary and non-nobiliary forms of toponymic surnames exist, as in some languages they evolved differently. In France, non-nobiliary forms tended to fuse the preposition, where nobiliary forms tended to retain it as the discrete particle , although this was never an invariable practice. Issues such as local pronunciation can cause toponymic surnames to take

1035-795: The surname Szily . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Szily&oldid=1079575706 " Categories : Surnames Hungarian-language surnames Hungarian toponymic surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description with empty Wikidata description All set index articles Habitational surname Some toponymic surnames originated as personal by-names that later were used as hereditary family names. The origins of toponymic by-names have been largely attributed to two non-mutually exclusive trends. One linked

1080-678: The 13th century, the use of toponymic surnames became dominant. Some forms originally included a preposition —such as by , in , at ( ten in Dutch, zu in German), or of ( de in French, Italian and Spanish, van in Dutch, von in German)—that was subsequently dropped, as in "de Guzmán" (of Guzman) becoming simply Guzmán. While the disappearance of the preposition has been linked to toponymic by-names becoming inherited family names, it (dropping

1125-591: The Town Council consisted of seven Liberal Democrats, four Labour, two Green and a solitary Conservative councillor. In 2023 the Town Council elected two women for the roles of mayor and deputy mayor, the first time this had occurred in Wymondham's history. After a by-election for Central Wymondham held the same day as the General Election on 4 July 2024, another Liberal Democrat was elected bringing

1170-475: The buildings and ran a Brief Encounter -themed restaurant on Platform 1 before retiring in 2011. The station was voted Best Small Station in the 2006 National Rail Awards. Both station and signal box are Grade II listed buildings. Toll's Meadow is a nature reserve and wildlife site with footpaths along the River Tiffey. Wildlife there includes kingfishers, herons, roe deer and water voles. The Lizard

1215-487: The centre lie 20th and 21st-century housing estates of mainly detached and semi-detached properties. There are trading and industrial estates along the route of the A11, which passes north-east through the south of the parish. The heavy rail Breckland line crosses the parish in the same direction. The rest of the parish is largely arable farmland . The parish has one of the largest areas in Norfolk. It includes swaths to

1260-488: The confluence of two small rivers. The largely rural parishes around it include Hethersett , Hethel , Ashwellthorpe , Bunwell , Wicklewood , Crownthorpe and Wramplingham . The market town of Attleborough lies to the south-west. Wymondham has a temperate maritime climate , like much of the British Isles, with relatively cool summers and mild winters. There is regular but generally light precipitation throughout

1305-411: The last ice age . The River Tiffey , flowing north, forms a boundary between the built-up town centre and the rural southern part of the parish. The built environment of Wymondham's town centre is marked by early-modern town houses and a number of buildings that survived the 1615 fire, including Wymondham Abbey. Much of the centre forms a conservation area with numerous listed buildings. Beyond

1350-472: The name probably consist of a personal name such as Wigmund or Wimund , with hām meaning village or settlement, or hamm meaning a river meadow. The place has been referred to as Windham on occasions. The site where Wymondham stands shows evidence of occupation from the earliest period of human settlement in Norfolk. Pot boilers and burnt flint have been found in nearby fields, as have flint axe-heads , scrapers and many other objects. Evidence of

1395-557: The nobility to their places of origin and feudal holdings and provided a marker of their status. The other related to the growth of the burgher class in the cities, which partly developed due to migration from the countryside to cities. Also linked was the increased popularity of using the names of saints for naming new-borns, which reduced the pool of given-names in play and stimulated a popular demand (and personal desire) for by-names—which were helpful in distinguishing an individual among increasing numbers of like-named persons. In London in

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1440-418: The north and south of the town, including the hamlets of Suton, Silfield, Spooner Row and Wattlefield. The United Kingdom Census 2001 gave Wymondham a total resident population of 12,539 and a population density of 733 per square mile (283/km ). By 2011 , the population had risen to 14,405, with a density of 840 per square mile (320/km ). Wymondham has an average age of 41.8. In 2011, 94.5 per cent of

1485-623: The original was destroyed in the fire of 1615. It is a timber-framed octagonal building with an upper floor raised above an open undercroft. It served as the centre of administration of the town's weekly market. In the late 19th century it was converted into a subscription reading room. After restoration in 1989, it reopened as the town's Tourist Information Centre . It is a Grade I listed building. The six Grade II* listed buildings in Wymondham are The Green Dragon pub, Kimberley Hall, Priory House, Stanfield Hall, The Chestnuts and 3 Market Street. The former jail, known as Wymondham Bridewell,

1530-415: The period include coins, jewellery and pottery. Roman remains include an aisled structure and a copper-alloy metal-working site. A Roman road from Venta Icenorum to Watton and beyond is visible as cropmarks. Large numbers of coins and pottery sherds have been found, as have personal items such as brooches, cosmetic tools and a duck figurine. Few Saxon buildings survive, although excavations showed

1575-649: The places in Poland named Maliszew , Maliszewo , or Maliszów . In anthroponymic terminology, toponymic surnames belong among topoanthroponyms (class of anthroponyms that are formed from toponyms). Wymondham Wymondham ( / ˈ w ɪ n d əm / WIN -dəm ) is a market town and civil parish in the South Norfolk district of Norfolk , England. It lies on the River Tiffey , 12 miles (19 km) south-west of Norwich and just off

1620-444: The population were White British, 1.1 per cent Asian, 0.5 per cent White Irish and 0.3 per cent Black. Christianity accounts for 60.3 per cent of the population, while 29.9 declare no religious affiliation. There are small populations of Muslims (0.5%), Buddhists (0.3%) and Hindus (0.2%). The 2011 census showed 72.6 per cent of the adult population economically active, 2.9 per cent unemployed and 16.8 per cent retired. The population

1665-430: The preposition) predates the trend of inherited family surnames. In England, this can be seen as early as the 11th century. And although there is some regional variation, a significant shift away from using the preposition can be seen during the 14th century. In some cases, the preposition coalesced (fused) into the name, such as Atwood (at wood) and Daubney (originating as de Albigni, from Saint-Martin-d'Aubigny ). In

1710-527: The total to eight on the Council. In County Council elections, the north part, with the Town Centre, returns one councillor to Norfolk County Council as Wymondham electoral division. The southern part elects a county councillor as part of Forehoe electoral division. For much of the 20th century, Wymondham belonged to the South Norfolk parliamentary constituency. After a boundary review , Wymondham

1755-406: The two-tower design evolved. The east tower was built first to an octagonal design (1409) and the west tower completed in 1498. The abbey was dissolved in 1538, after which many of its buildings were demolished. Their remains, including the surviving arch of the chapter house , are scattered around the church. The open land to the south of the church, above further remains of the medieval abbey,

1800-622: 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 times , untouched by development elsewhere. 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,

1845-428: The year. Wymondham was struck by an F1/T2 tornado on 23 November 1981, as part of the record-breaking nationwide tornado outbreak on that day. Wymondham's topography is marked by its river meadow and flat, low-lying agricultural landscape, much like the rest of East Anglia . The parish has an area of 17.11 square miles (44.31 km ). The geology is based on chalk , with a layer of boulder clay laid down in

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1890-521: Was built in 1787. It houses the Wymondham Heritage Museum . having once been a police station and a law court. It is a Grade II listed building. Wymondham railway station , built in 1844, retains much of its atmosphere, including a timber signal box for semaphore signalling from 1877, in use until 2012. Almost derelict by 1988, the site was transformed by the local businessman and railway enthusiast David Turner, who restored

1935-718: Was completed in 1617, but in 1621 there were still some 15 properties to be rebuilt. In 1695, the Attleborough road was the second British turnpike built, pre-dated only by the Great North Road . In 1785, a prison was built in line with the ideas of the prison reformer John Howard . The first in England to have separate cells for prisoners, it was widely copied there and in the United States. It now serves as Wymondham Heritage Museum . The collapse of

1980-554: Was moved to the Mid Norfolk constituency. However, Wymondham will revert to South Norfolk again after another boundary review, a long drawn out process which was only formalised in late 2023. At 52°34′12″N 1°6′57.6″E  /  52.57000°N 1.116000°E  / 52.57000; 1.116000 (52.57°, 1.116°), and 91 miles (146 km) north-north-west of London, Wymondham stands 134.5 feet (41 m) above sea level , 9 miles (14.5 km) south-west of Norwich , at

2025-403: Was probably held. The charter was renewed by Henry VI in 1440 and a weekly market is still held on Fridays. Wymondham Abbey was 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

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