WORMEGAY, a parish in the hundred of CLACKCLOSE,
county of NORFOLK, 7 miles (N. N. E.) from
Downham-Market, containing 362 inhabitants. The
living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of
Norfolk, and diocese of Norwich, endowed with £400
royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Bishop of
Norwich. The church is dedicated to the Holy Cross.
A priory of Black canons, in honour of the Virgin
Mary, the Holy Cross, and St. John the Evangelist, was
founded here in the reign of Richard I., or John, and,
in 1468, was united to the priory of Pentney, to which
it became a cell.