WICKHAM (West), a Parish, with a village, in Bromley district, Kent; 3 miles S by W of Bromley r. station. It has a post-office under Bromley, Kent, and a fair on Easter Monday. Acres, 2,645. Real property, £4,466. Pop., 737. Houses, 140. W. Court is the seat of Col. J. F.Lennard; W. Hall, of W. Dickenson, Esq.; W. House, of A. Stewart, Esq.; and there are many neat villas. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury. Value, £514.* Patron, Col. J. F.Lennard. The church is late perpendicular, and good. There are a Wesleyan chapel, a national school, and charities £6.

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