Wormbridge surrounding land and houses are now owned by Edward George Clive (formally Lennox-Boyd) of Whitfield, grandchild to Lady Mary Katherine Pakenham, sister to Francis Aungier Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford, Lord Longford. Wormbridge Court itself was a 17th-century house facing south on the site of the school playground. The basement window openings of that house are still visible in the retaining wall of the playground. The house was demolished circa 1800 when the Clive family moved to Whitfield, two miles away. The stables were then converted to create Wormbridge Court Farm. Wormbridge Mill was a watermill on the Worm Brook,
There Was an Old Woman Who Lived Under a Hill There Was an Old Woman Who Lived Under a Hill "There was an old woman lived under a hill" is a nursery rhyme which dates back to at least its first known printing in 1714. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 797. In 1714 these lines: appeared as part of a catch in "The Academy of Complements". In 1744 these lines appeared by themselves (in a slightly different form) in "Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book", the first extant collection of nursery rhymes. One eighteenth-century editor, possibly Oliver Goldsmith, added a note: "This is a self evident Proposition