Description
Week St Lawrence or Wick St Lawrence, a parish in Somerset, at the mouth of the river Yeo, 2 miles from Worle station on the G.W.R., and 4 1/2 NE by N of Weston-super-Mare. Post town, Worle, under Weston-super-Mare. Acreage, 1487; population, 218. Woodspring Priory, partly a ruin, and partly converted into a farmhouse, is adjacent. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to Congresbury. The church is a building of stone in the Perpendicular style, and has been restored. An ancient cross stands in the centre of the village, about 25 feet in height.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
