Childs WickhamExtract from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England, 1831.Transcribed by Mel Lockie, © Copyright 2010 Lewis Topographical Dictionaries WICKHAM (CHILDS), a parish in the lower division of the hundred of KIFTSGATE, county of GLOUCESTER, 5 miles (W. by S.) from Chipping-Campden, containing 428 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Gloucester rated in the king's books at £7. 16. 10., endowed with £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of S. Young Esq The church is dedicated to St. Mary. |
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