Wickham, Hampshire

Description
Wickham, a parish, with a village, in Hants, on the river Meon or Titchfield, 4 miles N by E of Fareham station on the L. & S.W.R. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Fareham, an inn, and a fair on 20 May. Acreage, 2449; population of the civil parish, 1161; of the ecclesiastical, 1173. There is a parish council consisting of nine members. The manor, with Rookesbury Park, belongs to the Garnier family. There are two mailing establishments, a brewery, and a flour mill. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Winchester; net value, £330 with residence. The church is a cruciform structure of flint and stone in the Gothic style, and contains numerous memorials to the Uvedale and Garnier families. There is a Wesleyan chapel. William of Wykeham, the great Bishop of Winchester, who died in 1404, was a native.