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Wickham Bishops is a village and civil parish located in Essex county, in the southeastern portion of England. It has a population of nearly 2000 people. It’s quite close to the towns of Maldon and Witham. Wickham Bishops has been listed in the 1086 Domesday book as Wicham, which means “dwelling place with a dairy farm”. The word Bishops means that the land was owned by the Bishop of London.

To arrive at Wickham Bishops you must take the A12 road in, or journey to Witham stop on the Great Eastern Main Line railway. There used to be another railway stop on the Witham-Maldon branch line, built in 1848, but it closed in 1964. The 90 bus can take travellers to and from town every thirty minutes from Monday to Friday, with limited service on weekends.

Wickham Bishops reconstructed their village hall in 2005. There are many playing fields for outdoor recreational activities. The village has several basic services and amenities in town, including a library that is only open part-time. Alastair Cook was a famous English cricket captain, and he lived in Wickham Bishops as a child.

The town has its own Wickham Bishops magazine, which is free and is distributed to over 1000 homes each month. There are also Brownies, Girl Guides, and Rangers for the children in the region.

The Wickham Bishops Drama Club regularly holds plays in town. They won a best production award at the Gimson One-Act Play Festival. One of the actors in the play also won a best supporting actor’s award.

St. Bartholomew’s Church serves the parish. It used to contain an old clock that had to be wound by hand, but it was replaced in 2008 for a modern electronic mechanism. The church sits on a hill, on the west side of the village. It was built in the 19th century as a replacement for another church located on another part of the town called St. Peter’s Church.

Services are no longer held at St. Peter’s Church, but it is known that it used to be a private chapel for the bishops of London who owned the village. Today, the church is owned by the Friends of Friendless Churches.

Some years the village hosts the Wickham Bishops Flower Festival, though there was not one last year. The festival in 2014 was held at St. Bartholomew’s Church. Residents had the opportunity to visit private gardens in the village, as well as to purchase a variety of plants and flowers for the garden. There was also a magician to entertain, and bouncy castles for the children, and stalls where food, drink, and crafts were sold.

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