WYMONDHAM, a parish in the hundred of PRAMLAND,
county of LEICESTER, 6 miles (E.) from Melton
Mowbray, containing 624 inhabitants. The living is a
rectory, in the archdeaconry of Leicester, and diocese
of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £12, and in
the patronage of the Crown. The church is dedicated
to St. Peter. This is a place of great antiquity, being
still surrounded by the remains of its ancient walls:
the Oakham canal runs through the parish. Sir John
Sedley, in 1637, liberally endowed, with land at Melton-
Mowbray, a free school for all the poor boys of the
parish.