Wick St. Lawrence

infobox UK place
country = England
latitude= 51.3849
longitude= -2.9138
official_name= Wick St. Lawrence
population =|unitary_england=North Somerset
lieutenancy_england= Somerset
region= South West England
constituency_westminster= Weston-super-Mare
post_town= Weston-super-Mare|postcode_district = BS22
postcode_area= BS|dial_code= 01934
os_grid_reference= ST365655

Wick St. Lawrence is a civil parish and village in the unitary authority of North Somerset. Its population in the 2001 census was 1,296.

The village lies on a small creek known as Slutspill near the River Yeo which was inundated in the Bristol Channel floods, 1607. The last wharf on the river was pier and spur of the old Weston, Clevedon and Portishead Railway which was torn up during World War I. For a short period after this coal was imported from south Wales on its own 33 ton vessel the "Lily", until it sunk in a gale in 1929.cite book |title=Somerset Harbours |last=Farr |first=Grahame |authorlink= |coauthors= |year=1954 |publisher=Christopher Johnson |location=London |isbn= |pages=71-72 ]

The parish has seen a vast increase in population in recent years, due to the building of the Ebdon Grounds housing development. This is an extension of the development of the neighbouring North Worle area, and the village itself remains separate from the new estate.

The parish is in the unitary authority ward of Kewstoke, and in the parliamentary constituency of Weston-super-Mare.

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* [http://home.freeuk.com/wsmfhs/churches/wick.htm Photographs of St. Lawrence's Church, Wick St. Lawrence.]