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.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Essex | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Wix St. Mary | |
Hundred | Tendring | |
Poor Law union | Tendring |
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:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Wix, or Weeks (St. Mary))
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
Online maps of Wix, Weeks, or Wikes are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following newspapers covering Essex online: