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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Wick St Lawrence like this:
WEEK-ST. LAWRENCE, a parish in Axbridge district, Somerset; at the mouth of the river Yeo, 2 miles NNW of Banwell r. station, and 4½ NE by N of Weston-super-Mare. Post town, Worle, under Weston-super-Mare. Acres, 1,900; of which 370 are water. Real property, £4,768. Pop., 270. Houses, 50. Woodspring priory, partly a ruin, and partly converted into a farmhouse, is adjacent. There is a coastguard station. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to Congresbury. The church is ancient. There is a parochial school.
Wick St Lawrence is now part of NORTH SOMERSET Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how NORTH SOMERSET has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Wick St Lawrence itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Wick St Lawrence, in North Somerset and Somerset | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/13404
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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