Wilcrick

infobox UK place
country = Wales
welsh_name= Chwilgrug
constituency_welsh_assembly=
map_type=
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 (1961 census)
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static_image_caption=Wilcrick Hill

Wilcrick ( _cy. Chwilgrug) is a small village within the administrative boundary of the city of Newport, South Wales, just to the west of Magor. It is within the historic county of Monmouthshire.

Three farms are located in the village: Church Farm, Newhouse Farm and Tump Farm.

Archaeology

To the southeast of the village is Wilcrick Hill which was a hillfort, of which the earthworks remain. Archaeological evidence, in the form of a small Iron Age settlement found preserved under peat at Barland's Farm, suggests that the occupiers probably moved inland, from the lower lying and wetter Gwent Levels, with their grazing cattle, when water-levels rose in the autumn, possibly to the hillfort which overlooks the site [ [http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba49/ba49news.html British Archaeology, Issue 49, November 1999] ]

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 Gwent Europark. This suggests that much higher water levels prevailed on the Gwent Levels at the time. [ [http://www.ggat.org.uk/cadw/historic_landscape/Gwent%20Levels/English/GL_09.htm The Glamorgan-Gwent Archaeological Trust: Historic Landscape Characterisation The Gwent Levels] ] [ [http://www.thenewportship.com/pdf/members/SOS_04.pdf The Newport Ship site - Barland's Farm boat] ]

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. 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. [ 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]

References

External links

* [http://www.cefnpennar.com/wilcrick/index.htm Monumental Inscriptions for Wilcrick]