Wickwar, Gloucestershire

Description
Wickwar, a small town and a parish in Gloucestershire. The town is 4 miles N of Chipping Sodbury, and has a station on the Bristol and Birmingham section of the M.R., and a post, money order, and telegraph office (R.S.O.) It was formerly a borough by prescription, but the corporation was abolished in 1883. There are two extensive breweries and four malthouses. Markets were held on Mondays, and fairs on 6 April and the first Monday in Nov., but both are almost extinct. The parish comprises 2328 acres: population, 933. There is a parish council consisting of nine members. The manor belongs to the Earl of Ducie. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; net value, £384 with residence. Patron, the Earl of Ducie. The church is Early English, and was restored in 1881. There are Baptist and Congregational chapels, a literary institute, a police station, and an endowed grammar school, founded in 1684, and reconstituted in 1869.