WICKEN, a parish in the hundred of CLELEY,
county of NORTHAMPTON, 3 miles (W. S. W.) from
Stony-Stratford, containing, with Wyke-Hamon, 471 inhabitants.
The living is a rectory, with Wyke-Hamon,
in the archdeaconry of Northampton, and diocese of
Peterborough, rated in the king's books at £15.1.10.,
and in the patronage of-Prowse, Esq. The church
is dedicated to St. John the Evangelist: that of Wyke-
Hamon has been long demolished.