The church contains other modern monuments, and there are brasses (1) to John Cleve, Rector (d. 1404); (2) to Edward Howton (d. 1479), his wife and family; (3) to John Cok, his wife and eleven sons; date uncertain, but presumably fifteenth century.  Cok or Cock was the name of a very old family in the neighbourhood, especially at Broxbourne.

WYDDIAL (11/2 mile N.E. from Buntingford) was called Widihale in Domesday Book, and was given by William I. to Hardwin de Scalers.  The walk from Buntingford up the hill to the ruined church at Layston (q.v.), and thence to this village, leads through some of the quietest spots in the county.  The church is E.E., and stands on high ground a few yards N. from the road and about 1 mile W. from the river Quin.  It was restored sixty years ago; but still retains two seventeenth-century stained-glass windows in the aisle, and two Jacobean screens.  The little N. chapel of brick was built by one George Canon in 1632.  The brasses include (1) to George Gyll, Lord of the Manor (d. 1546); (2) to Dame Margaret (Plumbe), a daughter of Sir Thomas Neville, Kt., and wife to Sir Robert Southwell, Master of the Rolls (d. 1575).  There are many memorials to the Goulston family, several of whom were Lords of the Manor; that to Sir Richard Goulston (d. 1686) bears a long inscription in Latin. Wyddial Hall, in a small park close to the church, was the property of the Goulstons.

WYMONDLEY, GREAT or MUCH, is nearly 2 miles S.E. from Hitchin Station, G.N.R.  The church dates from early in the twelfth century, but has been much restored.  The font, the chancel arch, and three windows in the chancel are said to be Norman; the tower is Perp.  The memorials are unimportant.

The neighbourhood is interesting.  The Lords of the Manor of Wymondley Magna were formerly, as the newspapers have recently reminded us, Cup-bearers to the King at his Coronation.  Near the church are some traces of an ancient fortification; a little S., and opposite a row of quaint cottages with heavily thatched roofs, stands Delamere House, once the property of Cardinal Wolsey, who is said to have been visited here by Henry VIII.  At the Manor Farm, Edward VI.—­according to tradition—­once slept; the Green Man, close by, on the W. side of the main street, has been kept by successive generations of one family for 300 years.  Forty years ago several Roman urns were discovered in the neighbourhood, and the well-preserved pavement of a Roman villa was unearthed, subsequently, at Purwell Mill, between the village and Hitchin.  Prehistoric implements have also been found.

WYMONDLEY, LITTLE, formerly Wymondley Parva, is 1 mile S. from the above.  The E. end of the street is crossed by the G.N.R. near the tiny churchyard.  The church is Perp.; and was largely rebuilt in 1875; two earlier structures are thought to have occupied the site.  It contains several inscriptions, and some monuments to the Needham family (seventeenth century).  A Priory of Augustinian Canons, dedicated to St. Mary, was founded here by Richard Argenton, in the reign of Henry III.; it was suppressed at the Dissolution.  When, in 1891, the Old Priory farm-house was being altered, some portions of two E.E. arches were disclosed, and are thought to show where the cloister of the Priory stood.  There is another E.E. arch in the house.