Wick or Wick near Pershore, Worcestershire

Historical Description

Wick or Wick-near-Pershore, a village, a township, and a parish in Worcestershire. The village is about 1 mile from the river Avon, 1 E of Pershore, and 2 miles SE of Pershore station on the G.W.R. There is a post office under Pershore; money order and telegraph office, Pershore. Acreage of the township, 1682; population, 294. Wick House, Upper Wick House, Avonbank, Vandyke Court, Bryn Issa, and The Grange are the chief residences. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester; net value, £176 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Pershore. The church is ancient, and was restored in 1893.

Administration

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

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

Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Wick or Wick near Pershore from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Wick-Near-Pershore)

Land and Property

The full transcript of the Worcestershire section of the Return of Owners of Land, 1873.

Maps

Online maps of Wick or Wick near Pershore 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 Worcestershire papers online:

• Worcester Journal
• Worcestershire Chronicle
• Worcester Herald

Visitations Heraldic

The Visitation of Worcestershire 1569 is available on the Heraldry page.