Lower Wick is a small

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located in the county of

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, England. It is situated about five miles south west of

Dursley Dursley is a market town and civil parish in southern Gloucestershire, England, almost equidistant from the cities of Bristol and Gloucester. It is under the northeast flank of Stinchcombe Hill, and about southeast of the River Severn. The t ...

, eighteen miles southwest of

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and fifteen miles northeast of

Bristol Bristol () is a city, ceremonial county and unitary authority in England. Situated on the River Avon, it is bordered by the ceremonial counties of Gloucestershire to the north and Somerset to the south. Bristol is the most populous city in ...

. Lower Wick is within the

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of Alkington. 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

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who once owned much of the land. One of the farms in the hamlet still has a working

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in use today which is over one hundred years old.

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Villages in Gloucestershire Stroud District {{Gloucestershire-geo-stub