Wickham Bishops
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#Villages_in_Essex
#Maldon_District
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 southeast 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.
Othere references note the historic name of "Wycham Episcopi".
Wickham Bishops is part of the electoral ward called Wickham Bishops and Woodham.
The population of this ward at the 2011 census was 3,500.
The Church of England parish church is St Bartholomew's.
The church was built on the western side of the hill on which the village stands.
The clock on its steeple was converted to an electronic mechanism in June 2008 （previously being wound by hand）.
St Bartholomew's is a Victorian replacement for the medieval St Peter's Church, which stands alone in the fields to the west near the River Blackwater, and beyond the disused railway line to Maldon.
The redundant Church of St Peter was probably built as a private chapel for the bishops of London who then owned the village.
Since 1975 it has belonged to the Friends of Friendless Churches.
St Bartholomew's Church, Wickham Bishops Wickham Bishops has a village hall （reconstructed in 2005）, playing fields, a library, tennis courts,
a hairdresser, health food shop, estate agent, a One Stop local shop/off licence and two pubs, the Mitre and the Chequers.
The number 90 bus service runs between Maldon to Wickham Bishops and Witham every half an hour for most of the day during Monday to Friday.
There is a small library which is located in the old school building in School Road.
The village’s drama club, named 'Wickham Bishops Drama Club', first performed in 192...