WICKLEWOOD, a parish, with a village, in Forehoe district, Norfolk; 2¾ miles WNW of Wymondham r. station. Post town, Wymondham. Acres, 1,564. Real property, £3,978. Pop. in 1861, 806; of whom 141 were in Forehoe workhouse. Houses, 146. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £356. Patrons, A.H. Percy, Esq., and the Rev. M. B. Darby. The church was restored in 1868. There are two Methodist chapels, a national school, and a poors' allotment of 12 acres.

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