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"WICKEN, a parish in the hundred of Cleley, county Northampton, 3 miles S.W. of Stoney-Stratford. The village is situated near the river Ouse and Buckingham canal. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough, value, with that of Wyke-Hamon consolidated, £416. The church is dedicated to St. John the Evangelist. The church of Wyke-Hamon has long since been demolished. The parochial charities produce £23 per annum. There is a National school, supported by Sir J. Mordaunt, Bart., who is lord of the manor. Andrew Fuller, the Baptist divine, was born here in 1754."[From The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868). Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]
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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868
"WICKEN, a parish in the hundred of Cleley, county Northampton, 3 miles S.W. of Stoney-Stratford. The village is situated near the river Ouse and Buckingham canal. The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Peterborough, value, with that of Wyke-Hamon consolidated, £416. The church is dedicated to St. John the Evangelist. The church of Wyke-Hamon has long since been demolished. The parochial charities produce £23 per annum. There is a National school, supported by Sir J. Mordaunt, Bart., who is lord of the manor. Andrew Fuller, the Baptist divine, was born here in 1754."
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Extract for Wicken from 'The Northamptonshire Village Book', compiled by the Northamptonshire Federation of Women's Institutes
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