Little Wymondley lies to the east of Hitchin and currently has a population of 534. There are numerous interesting houses throughout the village including the moated Bury, built during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Other buildings include the late Georgian Wymondley House and Wymondley Priory. The latter is a house again built during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and overlaying an earlier, thirteenth century, foundation.

The Wymondley aspect of the village name derives from an Old English personal name and leah to give ‘Wilmund's wood/clearing‘. The name used to be prefixed by the word Parva which is Latin for small.