Extract from a Study of the Village of Wymington:

Only two of the plots were not sold on the Rushden Road; they were at the foot of Rectory Hill, next to Manor Farm paddock. Mr. W. W. Smith of Poplar Farm owned the fields, and after selling the rest of the frontages for the building, he gave one plot to the Boy Scouts in Wymington for the erection of a hut. This was done and its use was shared later by the Girl Guides, but when both organisations disbanded, the hut became derelict and was taken down in 1965.

The other plot was given by Mr. Smith to the Wymington Branch British Legion, and although it was discussed over a long period, their hut was never built. Although a thriving branch at its inception, the Wymington British Legion became inactive and was later amalgamated with the Irchester branch. Legion officials tried to sell their land as a building plot, but the County Planner refused to grant building permission, and the rather amazing reason given was that the building of a house there ‘would constitute ribbon development’. The two plots remain vacant and overgrown, with no foreseeable future, and no-one feeling responsible for clearing them.