Wicken

Other current and historical names

Wrecken
Wicha

Built-Up Area: Wicken
Parish/Community: Wicken
District/Borough: East Cambridgeshire
County: Cambridgeshire
Region: Eastern

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 52°18'43"N 0°18'10"E
Eastings/Northings: 557082, 270723
OS Grid: TL570707
Mapcode Local: GBR M7P.5C1
Mapcode Global: VHHJT.64GS

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Wicken within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Wicken in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Wicken.-- par. and vil., Cambridgeshire - par., 3812 ac., pop. 844; vil., 7 miles NW. of Newmarket; P.O.

Wicken in the Domesday Book

A village in Staploe hundred, in the county of Cambridgeshire.

- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Edeva the fair
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Count Alan
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Count Alan
- Taxable Value: 7 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £6 in 1066; £14 in 1070; £14 in 1086
- Households: 11 villagers; 8 smallholders; 5 slaves
- Plough Teams: 3 lord's ploughs; 8 men's ploughs (12 plough lands)
- Meadow: 12 ploughs
- Mills: 3, value £1 7/12
- Other resources: 1 fishery

British Place Names

Wicken, Cambridgeshire

Wicken is a village in Wicken , Cambridgeshire

Wicken in historic gazetteers

Wicken in the Domesday Book