OS grid reference TQ026030 Country England Post town LITTLEHAMPTON Local time Sunday 6:16 PM District Arun Civil parish Littlehampton | Region South East Sovereign state United Kingdom Postcode district BN17 Shire county West Sussex Dialling code 01903 | |
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Weather 14°C, Wind SW at 14 km/h, 67% Humidity UK parliament constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton | ||
Wick is a community in the Arun district of West Sussex, England. Originally a separate village, it now forms part of the built up area around Littlehampton. It lies on the A284 road 0.6 miles (1 km) north of the town centre.
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Map of Wick, UK
There is an annual summer festival held in Wick. The village hall is one of the largest in the area, there are several flint Victorian buildings including All Saints Church and one thatched cottage. Wick contains three separate parades of shops, including a Co-Operative supermarket, green grocer, bakery, a laundrette, one pub and various other small specialist shops.
History
The village of Wick formed around Wick Manor, established after the Norman Conquest of 1066. It has an ancient Roman Brick/clay making site, (this now lies under a road called 'Potters Mead', off Courtwick Road). Wick had an Art Deco era Steam Laundry built in the 1920s, it has now been demolished.
An Alleyway or Twitten that passes by the site of the former True Blue public house, is known locally as 'Dark Alley' due to the black clinker surface laid down along its route.
During the early 1990s some areas of Wick had developed a reputation for drug and alcohol addiction, high teenage pregnancy, and low ‘community esteem’ this resulted in the highly successful Christian "The WIRE project" being established to address these issues. In recent years, efforts have been made to improve the quality of wick's social housing, with many being refurbished.
In 2009 the True Blue pub was demolished to make way for new housing.
Sport and leisure
Wick has a Non-League football club Wick & Barnham United F.C. who play at Crabtree Park.