Wickwar (not to be confused with Warwick) is a small English town in South Gloucestershire between Chipping Sodbury and Charfield. It is famous for its football club and its high street. The Wickwar brewery is a popular local producer of cask ale.
It is on the main Bristol-Birmingham railway line, and once had a station, but this closed in January 1965. Just to the south the line passes through a tunnel 1,401 yards in length. Wickwar also lies ne...
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Wickwar (not to be confused with Warwick) is a small English town in South Gloucestershire between Chipping Sodbury and Charfield. It is famous for its football club and its high street. The Wickwar brewery is a popular local producer of cask ale.
It is on the main Bristol-Birmingham railway line, and once had a station, but this closed in January 1965. Just to the south the line passes through a tunnel 1,401 yards in length. Wickwar also lies near to the source of the Little Avon River, which rises in woodland to the east.
The village originally lay on the Old Saltway from Droitwich to Sodbury and Pucklechurch and was developed in the late 13th century by the de la Warre family with the establishment of a market in 1285. The main street, the present High Street, was laid out around the market place with uniform burgage plots and rear access lanes. Burghers paid an annual fixed rent to the overlord but they could sell their tenancies much as in the free market today. In addition they...
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