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Wix, Weeks, or Wikes, Essex

Historical Description

Wix, Weeks, or Wikes, a parish, with a village, in Essex, 2½ miles SE of Bradfield and S of Wrabness stations on the Manningtree and Harwich branch of the G.E.R., and 4½ ESE of Manningtree. It has a post and money order office under Manningtree; telegraph office, Great Oakley. Acreage, 3129; population, 682. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. A Benedictine nunnery was founded here by W. Mascherell in the time of Henry I., and was given at the dissolution to Cardinal Wolsey. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of St Albans; net value, £90 with residence. The church, restored in 1888, is a small edifice of stone, consisting of chancel and nave, with detached belfry. There are Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan chapels.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyEssex 
Ecclesiastical parishWix St. Mary 
HundredTendring 
Poor Law unionTendring 

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.


Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Wix, Weeks, or Wikes from the following:


Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Essex is available to browse.

The Essex pages from the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 is online.


Maps

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Newspapers and Periodicals

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