Wick History

Step back in time... Wychavon District Council and Wick Parish Council invite you to explore the rich history of Wick, a small rural village in the Vale of Evesham, Worcestershire.

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Located outside St Mary's Church and opposite Wyke Manor.

Trail Board 2

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Wick Timeline (2)

1160 ADThe two manor houses continued in various forms on the same sites on into the 20th century. The Arts and Crafts style manor house behind you was built around 1925. This incorporated the Georgian house and is still thought to contain parts of the medieval manor house of Wike Burnell within it.
1540 ADWyke Waryn was bought by Edward Hazelwood of Offenham from Richard Neville, one of the great Warwick family. Wike Burnell had once been the property of Katherine Parr and was given by Elizabeth 1 to her favourite Sir Walter Raleigh - sometime later it was back in the ownership of the Crown.
1586 ADThe manor of Wike Burnell was bought from the Crown by Edward Hazelwood’s son, Fawlke Hazelwood. Subsequently, his son Thomas Hazelwood became lord of both manors. The combined manors of Wick stayed in the Hazelwood family for around two hundred years.
1728 ADThe Evesham to Wick (and later Pershore) Turnpike road, now the B4084 was authorised by Act of Parliament. This road bisected many fields to the south of the village Street, replacing the old London Road, which ran through the grounds of the present college at Avonbank.
1745 ADBeing heavily in debt James Hazelwood sold both manors, plus holdings in Binholm, to Reverend Bernard Wilson DD of Newark-upon-Trent for £19,379 14s 2d.
1772 ADReverend Wilson died, and his Wick estates passed to his nephew Robert Wilson Cracraft, although he never lived there.
1776 ADThe Wick manor estates were sold to Richard Hudson and he paid £17,960 for them. The Hudson family still live and farm in the Parish of Wick.
VictorianThe Church was thoroughly restored and enlarged in Victorian times, costing £1,600 but it still retains some of the original Saxon and Norman features. The vicarage, St Mary's, was built in 1889 at a cost of £1,710. You can also see the old preaching cross in the adjacent field. We do not know its exact age or history, but it has seen the owners of the manors of Wick come and go and villagers toiling in the surrounding fields for many hundreds of years.

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1Wyke Manor

Remodelled 1920-23 by architect Cecil G. Hare.

Wyke Manor

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2St Mary's Church

Rear view pre-1890.

St Mary's Church2 Photos - Click to View

Further Articles Relating to St Mary's Church

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3The Old Forge

Joseph James Sherwood in c1900.

The Old Forge

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4Orchard Cottage

"Mrs Arnold's Shop" in c1900.

Orchard Cottage

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5Glenmore Cottage

Looking back down Main Street from Cooks Hill in c1900.

Glenmore Cottage

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