Wickham

Wickham (also spelt as "Wicham" or "Wichaema", and in the Domesday Book of 1086 as, variously, "Wiceham, Wicham, Wikham", and "Wic(c)hamm"), lit. "town enclosure". This Olde English pre-7th Century term "wicham", from which the majority of the place-names are derived, was used to denote a settlement; "Wic" being an adaptation of the Latin "vicus", and "Ham" being an Olde English word, meaning lit. "enclosure") associated with a Romano-British town. 'Wickham' is an ancient and distinguished surname of Anglo-Saxon origin.

It is a locational surname deriving from any one of the places so called, for example in Cambridgeshire, Suffolk, Essex, Hertfordshire, Kent, Hampshire, Berkshire and Oxfordshire. "Wickham" is also the name of a small market town in Hampshire, England, UK.

Wickham may also refer to:

Places

Australia

• Cape Wickham, Tasmania, a coastal feature
• Wickham, New South Wales, a suburb of Newcastle
• Electoral district of Wickham (New South Wales)
• Wickham, Northern Territory, in Litchfield Municipality
• Wickham River, a river in Northern Territory that flooded during the 2001–02 Australian region cyclone season
• Wickham Park, Brisbane
• Electoral district of Wickham (Queensland)
• Wickham, Western Australia, a town
  • Wickham Island or Stanley Island, Recherche Archipelago

Canada

• Wickham, New Brunswick
• Wickham, Quebec

Other Places

• Wickham, West Virginia
• Wickham Heights, Falkland Islands
  • Mount Wickham
• Wickham Island, New Georgia Islands group, Solomon Islands
• Wickham, Berkshire, a village in England, UK

Transport

• Wickham railway station, Newcastle, Australia
• Wickham Transport Interchange, Newcastle, Australia
• Wickham (Hants) railway station, Hampshire, England

People with the surname

• Anna Wickham, pseudonym of Edith Mary Harper (1884–1947), English poet
• Charles George Wickham (1879–1971), commander of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (1922–1945)
• Charles Preston Wickham (1836–1925), American congressman from Ohio
• Christopher Wickham (born 1950), Chichele Professor of Medieval History at Oxford
• Connor Wickham (born 1993), English footballer
• David Wickham (born 1966) British Pianist, Conductor and Music DIrector
• Edward Wickham (1890–1957), British Conservative politician
• Enoch Tanner Wickham (1883–1970), American folk artist
• Geoffrey Wickham (born 1933), Australian pioneer of cardiac pacemaking, co-founder of Telectronics
• Glynne Wickham (1922–2004), British Shakespearean and theatre scholar
• Hadley Wickham, New Zealand statistician
• Henry Wickham (1846-1928), British explorer
• Henry Wickham Wickham (1800–1867), British Conservative politician
• Joe Wickham (1890–1968), former General Secretary of the Football Association of Ireland
• John Wickham (attorney) (1763–1839), American attorney
• John Adams Wickham, Jr. (born 1928), U.S. Army Chief of Staff (1983-87)
• John Clements Wickham (1798–1864), Australian naval officer on Darwin's HMS Beagle, judge in Queensland
• Keith Wickham (born 1965), British voice actor
• Madeleine Wickham (born 1969), British bestselling author of chick lit as Sophie Kinsella
• Parker Wickham (1727–1785), New York Loyalist politician
• Phil Wickham (born 1984), American Christian musician
• Saskia Wickham (born 1967), British actress
• Steve Wickham, Irish musician
• Tracey Wickham (born 1962), Australian swimmer
• Vicki Wickham (born 1942), English talent manager
• Vincent Schofield Wickham (1894-1968), Editorial artist, sculptor
• William Wickham (bishop) (1539–1595), English bishop
• William Wickham (spymaster) (1761–1840), British politician
• William H. Wickham (1832–1893), mayor of New York (1875–76)
• Williams Carter Wickham (1820–1888), Confederate Brigadier General and Virginian politician

Fictional characters

• Bobbie Wickham, in P. G. Wodehouse's Jeeves stories
• George Wickham, principal villain in Jane Austen's 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice

People with the first name

• Wickham Skinner, professor at the Harvard Business School

Other uses

• Wickham & Co, manufacturers of locomotives and carriages, represented at the Amberley Museum Railway

See also

• Grevillea wickhamii, an Australian plant also known as Wickham's Grevillea
• Whickham, Tyne and Wear, England