Ashwellthorpe

A small village to the south of Wymondham. The White Horse pub is in the centre of the village and is very busy on race days at the nearby trotting track which holds races at Wreningham a few times each year.

The church tower was built in the early 14th century, and there is an interesting alabaster monument between the north chapel and the chancel, possibly of Sir Edmund Thorpe who died in 1417. The carved octagonal font is dated 1660, the year that Charles II was restored to the throne after Cromwell’s Commonwealth had failed.