Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WICKER

WICKER, a chapelry in Sheffield parish, W. R. Yorkshire; including part of Sheffield town. It was constituted in 1845. Post town, Sheffield. Pop., 10,796. Houses, 2,271. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of York. Value, £150.* Patrons, Misses Harrison. The church was built in 1848, is a fine edifice, and contains about 1,000 sittings. Congregational schools, in the decorated style, were built in 1860.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Sheffield CP/AP       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Wicker

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