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Evidence of Saxon settlement was uncovered during an expansion of the Wymington school. Shards of early to middle Saxon pottery were discovered in ditches that had probably been dug in the 12th to 13th century.<ref>{{cite web |title=MEDIEVAL DITCHES (12th-13th CENTURY); St. Lawrence Lower School, Wymington |url=https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MBB22835&resourceID=1014 |website=Heritage Gateway |publisher=Historic Environment Record for Bedfordshire |access-date=9 August 2022}}</ref> Wymington was recorded in the [[Domesday Book]] of 1086 as a parish within the [[Hundred of Willey]], a part of the barony held by Alured de Lincoln, with a population of 23 households.<ref>{{cite web |title=Land of William Speke |url=https://opendomesday.org/place/SP9564/wymington/ |website=Open Domesday |access-date=5 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230217100609/https://opendomesday.org/place/SP9564/wymington/ |archive-date=17 February 2023 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="historical" />
====The Wymington manors====
The lordship of the Wymington manors was held by numerous individuals influential in English royal politics from the 13th to 15th centuries. Historically, there were two separate Wymington manors. The Domesday Book references four tenants in Wymington, two of which held manors. The larger of the two was held by one Walter the Fleming (possibly [[Walter of Douai]]), and was attached to the barony of Wahull at least until 1372, and possibly as late as 1515.<ref name=vhcb>{{cite book |last1=Page |first1=William |title=The Victoria History of the County of Bedford, Vol. III |date=1912 |publisher=Constable and Company Ltd. |location=London |pages=117-123 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HgQ5AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA118 |access-date=3 June 2024}}</ref> Sometime after the [[Battle of Northampton (1264)|Battle of Northampton]] in 1264, [[Henry III of England|Henry III]] granted the manor to William de Columbers. Following the [[Dictum of Kenilworth]] in 1268, Columbers transferred the manor to Roger de Noers (also Nowers).<ref>{{cite book |last1=Palmer |first1=Robert C. |title=The Wilton Dispute, 1264-1380: A Social-Legal Study of Dispute Settlement in Medieval England |date=2014 |publisher=Princeton University Press |location=Princeton |page=56}}</ref>
 
By the 1350s, John Curteys had taken possession of one of the largermanor offrom twothe manorsde in theNoers parishfamily. Curteys, who was mayor of the [[The Staple|wool staple]] of [[Calais]], was known to have held considerable wealth. He provided funds to re-build the village church, completed in 1377, and made a loan to [[Richard II]] in the sum of £20 in 1379, an extremely substantial amount at the time. The church isremains as the only remaining medieval building in the village, and a noted example of medieval British architecture.<ref>{{cite web |title=Parishes: Wymington or Wimington |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/beds/vol3/pp117-122 |website=British History Online |publisher=Institute of Historical Research |access-date=9 August 2022}}</ref> On Curteys's death in 1391, control of the manor passed to his wife, Albreda.<ref name="historical" />
 
The village's connection to Richard II and the crown continued when Sir Thomas Brounflete (also Brounflet or Bromflet), the king's Chief Butler and cupbearer, was granted lord of the manor at Wymington in 1397 on Albreda Curteys's death. Brounflete would go on to be the comptroller of the household of [[Henry IV of England|Henry IV]]. Sir Thomas's son, Henry, inherited the manor in 1430, and was sent as an ambassador of [[Henry VI of England|Henry VI]] to the [[Council_of_Florence|Council of Basel]] in 1434. In 1448, Henry VI made him [[Baron Vesci|Lord Vesci (or Veysey)]]. On Henry's death in January of 1468 lacking a male heir the manor and all of his other holdings in Bedfordshire and [[Buckingham]] was sold off by the executors of his estate, with the proceeds going to charity and to the church.<ref name="historical" />
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In the late 1500s [[Henry Stanley, 4th Earl of Derby|Henry Stanley]], the [[Earl of Derby|4th Earl of Derby]] and grandson of [[Henry VII of England|Henry VII]], came into possession of the manor. In 1591, Henry, and later his son [[Ferdinando Stanley, 5th Earl of Derby]], began to sell off large portions of Wymington to the manor in [[Podington]].<ref name="historical" />
 
The second, smaller manor was held by Alured de Lincoln inat the latetime of the 11thDomesday centurysurvey. By 1215, the manor was held by Peter de Surive under the [[Henry de Loundres|Archbishop of Dublin]], shifting again in 1224 to a Robert de la Briwere for services rendered to the king. By 1328, John de Exmouth had obtained the manor, which passed to his heirs. In 1361, de Exmouth's line ended, and the manor was passed to John Curteys, at which pointmerging the two manors merged.<ref name=vhcb />
 
===Renaissance and modern era===
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