Wormshill is a small
village and
civil parish within the
Borough of Maidstone,
Kent, England. It lies on an exposed high point of the
North Downs, 8 miles (13 km) east of
Maidstone and within the
Kent Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Archaeological and
toponymic evidence of Wormshill's existence predates its appearance in the
Domesday survey of 1086. Its name derived from the
Anglo-Saxon god
Wōden and means "Woden's Hill". The village contains a number of
heritage-listed buildings, which include a
Norman church (
St Giles, Wormshill, pictured), a
public house and one of the oldest surviving post office buildings in the United Kingdom. The
Bredgar and Wormshill Light Railway runs between two small stations in nearby woodland. The fields and woodland surrounding Wormshill have changed little in the past 500 years, and the village itself remains rural with a low population density compared to the national average. Because of restrictions on development, building in the village has been scant since the 1960s and 1970s. The population of 200 is a mixture of agricultural workers employed by local farms and professionals who commute to nearby towns. (
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Princess Ida is a comic opera with music by
Arthur Sullivan and a
libretto by
W. S. Gilbert. First performed at the
Savoy Theatre on 5 January 1884, the piece involves Prince Hilarion and his two friends sneaking into a women's college, disguised as women, to woo Princess Ida, to whom he was wed in infancy. Ida, a feminist, has rejected all mankind, and when Hilarion's identity is accidentally revealed, a battle of the sexes ensues.
This illustration is from the 1909 printing of Savoy Operas, an illustrated compilation of four of the
Gilbert and Sullivan works. This illustration presents the stage direction "Enter Princess, reading."
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