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Whickham is a town four miles southwest of Newcastle upon Tyne in north east England. The name is an Anglo-Saxon term meaning ‘estate with a quickset hedge’ but the town is not mentioned until after the Norman Conquest, when in the Boldon Book, compiled for the Bishop of Durham in 1183, it is referred to as ‘Quykham’ and for which the Bishop charged each of the 35 tenants 16 shillings in rent for an ox gang of land (around 15 acres). Agriculture played an important role in Whickham’s history but it was overshadowed when coal was found to be available close to the surface, and easily mined.
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