Most of the higher south part of the parish is boulder clay, good farming land, with a small pocket of sands and gravels running south-east from Wood Hall.

The second, also unsubstantiated, is that a crocodile escaped from Richard I of England's menagerie in the Tower of London and caused much damage in Wormingford before being killed by Sir George Marney; a stained-glass window in St Andrew's Church depicts this legend.

The third, written in 1405 by John de Trokelowe, a monk, told of a dragon who threatened Richard Waldegrave's territory near Sudbury but fled into the Mere when pursued.

A large number of scattered archaeological finds from all periods from the Neolithic suggest that settlement was first on the flood plain, alongside the Stour, before woodland on the higher ground further south was gradually cleared.

[4] Wormingford Mere lies next to the River Stour and covers an area of 49,000 square metres (12 acres).

An analysis of a 4 centimetres (1.6 in) core of sediment found 9,000-year-old pollen at 14 metres (46 ft) which showed that the landscape at that time was primarily hazel and birch with some elm.

Colchester Archaeological Group [5] says that the mere's "relationship to its surrounding features [including crop marks, see above] is striking" and that it might "have played some role in ceremonial activity", perhaps being seen as "an entrance to the spirit underworld".

On D-Day, the P-38 groups were given the task of acting as convoy escorts for the armada of ships moving to and from Normandy.

The 55th was selected to serve with the occupation forces in Germany and in July 1945 it left Wormingford for Gielbelstadt airfield in Bavaria.

The team sadly no longer exists but played in the PDQ North division, which it joined in 1976 then rejoined in 1991.