Wickhamford is a village and a

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Worcestershire Worcestershire ( , ; written abbreviation: Worcs) is a county in the West Midlands of England. The area that is now Worcestershire was absorbed into the unified Kingdom of England in 927, at which time it was constituted as a county (see H ...

, England. It is situated on the

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approximately halfway between the towns of Evesham and Broadway. It is mentioned in 1086 in the

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under the name of ''Wiquene'' when it was owned by Evesham Abbey.Wickhamford Parish Council website.
Retrieved 21 June 2009

Wickhamford Manor

The manor was built in the 16th century on land belonging to the abbey. It was later sold to Thomas Throckmorton by

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. In 1594 it was purchased from the Crown by Sir

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and remained in the family until its sale in 1863. Thatched_house_in_Wickhamford

St. John the Baptist Church

The 13th-century parish Church of St. John the Baptist shows a close connection of the Sandys family with the American colonists. It can be seen in the floor slab monument to Penelope Washington within the altar rails. The oak

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gates were installed in the 17th century with a monument to the Sandys family on the north side. Penelope Washington, whose mother married Sir Samuel Sandys and moved to the Manor House, was a distant relative of

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, the first

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