RISSINGTON-WICK, a parish, with a village, in Stow-on-the-Wold district, Gloucester; adjacent to the Bourton railway and to the Fosse way, 1¾ mile E N E of Bourton-on-the-Water r. station. Post-town, Stow-on-the-Wold, under Moreton-in-the-Marsh. Acres, 1, 140. Real property, £2, 128. Pop., 206. Houses, 44. The manor, with Wick-Hill House, belongs to Van Notten Pole, Esq. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £210.* Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is Norman and early English, and was enlarged about 1833. There are a parochial school, and charities £7.

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