Wilcrick

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Field	Value
country	Wales
welsh_name	Chwilgrug
official_name	Wilcrick
unitary_wales	Newport
lieutenancy_wales	Gwent
constituency_westminster	Newport East
post_town	CALDICOT
postcode_district	NP26
postcode_area	NP
dial_code	01633
os_grid_reference	ST409879
population	24
population_ref	(1961 census)
static_image_name	Wilcrick.jpg
static_image_caption	Wilcrick Hill
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Wilcrick () is a hamlet within the administrative boundary of the city of Newport, South Wales, just to the west of Magor and approximately 7 mi southeast of Newport city centre. It is within the historic county of Monmouthshire.

Etymology

The name translates from the Welsh as a "bare hill" or "mound".

Archaeology

Willcrick is located on the B4245 road to the northwest of Magor. To the southeast of the village is Wilcrick Hill which has a hillfort on its summit, of which only the earthworks remain. Archaeological evidence of a small Iron Age settlement found preserved under peat at Barland's Farm suggests that the occupiers may have used the Caldicot and Wentloog Levels to pasture their cattle when conditions permitted, and may have moved into the hillfort when the Levels were too wet to be useable.

Nearby, a nearly complete 3rd century Romano-British oak boat was found beside a buried stone and timber quay in 1993, during the building of a distribution depot at the nearby Europark.Nayling, N. (2005). The Barland's Farm Romano-Celtic boat. In Council for British Archaeology Research Reports (p. 138). Archaeology Data Service. https://doi.org/10.5284/1081727 https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/library/browse/issue.xhtml?recordId=1075324 This suggests that much higher water levels prevailed on the Levels at the time.

The church

The parish church is dedicated to St. Mary, with the minister historically being also the minister for Llanmartin. The only ministers not appearing also as ministers there were Peter Ameline, rector of Wilcrick in 1535 and Edmond Jones instituted to Wilcrick on 16 July 1631. After that the names and dates of ministers for both parishes are the same. The church has a bell of 1726 cast by the Evans foundry of Chepstow.

Historian J.A. Bradney describes the church as comprising nave and chancel, with a bell turret at the west end and containing "nothing of interest except an ancient font". The whole edifice was rebuilt in 1860.

References

Owen, Hywel Wyn. (2007). "Dictionary of the Place-Names of Wales". Gomer.
(2015). "Concise Road Atlas: Britain". AA Publishing.
Martin, Caroline. (2001). "Willcrick - Bishton". Hillforts of Gwent: In Search of the Iron Age.
"Historic Landscape Characterisation the Gwent Levels". The Glamorgan-Gwent Archaeological Trust.
Newton-Davies, Victoria. (2004). "Barland's Farm boat". The Newport Ship site.
"Rectorial Benefice of Magor St Martin's Church, Llanmartin".
[[Joseph Bradney. Bradney, J. A.]], ''A History of Monmouthshire from the Coming of the Normans Into Wales Down to the Present Time'', Volume 4, Parts 1 and 2 - The Hundred of Caldicot, published 1929 and 1932

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