Worminghall is a village and civil parish in the Buckinghamshire district of the ceremonial county of Buckinghamshire, England.
SS Peter & Paul parish church
East end of SS Peter & Paul parish church
The 17th-century almshouses
The Village Hall, built in the 19th century as the parish school
Farmer Giles of Ham is a comic medieval fable written by J. R. R. Tolkien in 1937 and published in 1949. The story describes the encounters between Farmer Giles and a wily dragon named Chrysophylax, and how Giles manages to use these to rise from humble beginnings to rival the king of the land. It is cheerfully anachronistic and light-hearted, set in Britain in an imaginary period of the Dark Ages. It features mythical creatures, medieval knights, and primitive firearms.
First edition cover
A blunderbuss
Chrysophylax was brought back to the city, tamed, as in the story of Saint George and the Dragon. 15th-century Georgian icon.