Wicken or Wykens, Northamptonshire
Historical Description
Wicken or Wykens, anciently two parishes known as Wyke Dyve and Wyke Hamon, now a parish in Northamptonshire, on the Bucks border, 5 miles from Wolverton station on the L. & N.W.R., and 3½ WSW of Stony Stratford. It has a post office under Stony Stratford; money order and telegraph office, Deanshanger. Acreage, 2321; population, 442. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. The manor with Wicken Park belongs to Lord Penrhyn, who is sole landowner. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough; net value, £280 with residence in the gift of Lord Penrhyn. The church is a building of stone consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, S porch, and a western pinnacled tower.
Church Records
Ancestry.co.uk, in association with the Northamptonshire Record Office, have images of the Parish Registers and Bishop's Transcripts for Northamptonshire online.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Northamptonshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Wicken or Wykens 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 Northamptonshire papers online: