Lower Wick
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Lower Wick is a small hamlet located in the county of Gloucestershire
and is situated about five miles south west of Dursley
, eighteen miles southwest of Gloucester
and fifteen miles northeast of Bristol
. Lower Wick is within the civil parish of Alkington
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The hamlet contains approximately 17 homes (including the old school house, now converted into a dwelling) and a restaurant, most of the older properties were built by the Berkeley family
who once owned much of the land.
One of the farms in the hamlet still has a working wind pump in use today which is over one hundred years old.
Gloucestershire
Gloucestershire is a county in South West England. The county comprises part of the Cotswold Hills, part of the flat fertile valley of the River Severn, and the entire Forest of Dean....
and is situated about five miles south west of Dursley
Dursley
Dursley is a market town in Gloucestershire, England. It is under the North East flank of Stinchcombe Hill , and about 6 km South East of the River Severn. The town is adjacent with Cam which, though a village, is a community of double the size...
, eighteen miles southwest of Gloucester
Gloucester
Gloucester is a city, district and county town of Gloucestershire in the South West region of England. Gloucester lies close to the Welsh border, and on the River Severn, approximately north-east of Bristol, and south-southwest of Birmingham....
and fifteen miles northeast of Bristol
Bristol
Bristol is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, with an estimated population of 433,100 for the unitary authority in 2009, and a surrounding Larger Urban Zone with an estimated 1,070,000 residents in 2007...
. Lower Wick is within the civil parish of Alkington
Alkington, Gloucestershire
Alkington is a civil parish in the district of Stroud, Gloucestershire. It had a population of 638 in the 2001 census. There is no Alkington village, the parish consists of various hamlets, including Woodford, Newport and Lower Wick....
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The hamlet contains approximately 17 homes (including the old school house, now converted into a dwelling) and a restaurant, most of the older properties were built by the Berkeley family
Berkeley family
The Berkeley family has an unbroken male line of descent from a Saxon ancestor before the Norman conquest of England in 1066 to the present day.-History:...
who once owned much of the land.
One of the farms in the hamlet still has a working wind pump in use today which is over one hundred years old.