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Wickham Bishops
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| Wickham Bishops | |
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 Beacon Hill lighting ceremony during Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee | |
  Wickham Bishops Location within Essex | |
| Population | 3,700 (2021)[1] |
| OS grid reference | TL840120 |
| Civil parish |
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| District | |
| Shire county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | WITHAM |
| Postcode district | CM8 |
| Dialling code | 01621 |
| Police | Essex |
| Fire | Essex |
| Ambulance | East of England |
| UK Parliament | |
Wickham Bishops is a village and civil parish in the Maldon district of Essex, England. It is located around three miles north of the town of Maldon and around two miles south-east of Witham, in whose post town it lies.
The place name Wickham Bishops is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it appears as Wicham, meaning 'dwelling place with a (dairy) farm'. Bishops refers to the fact that the land belonged to the Bishop of London.[2] Other references note the historic name of Wycham Episcopi.[3]
- ^ Census, 2021
- ^ Eilert Ekwall, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names, p. 516.
- ^ "Stephen Nunn on a lost landscape ... and a beheaded bishop!". Maldon and Burnham Standard. Retrieved 14 September 2021.
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