Wick, Gloucestershire

The River Boyd flows through the old village, with its watermeadows facing St. Bartholomew's Church, a grade II* listed building dating from 1850.

Brockwell Park provides a green space for the village with a play area and a trim trail, as well as a Community Orchard planted in 2020.

It was described by the poet John Dennys of Pucklechurch in his work of 1613 The Secrets of Angling, the earliest English poetical treatise on fishing:[3] And thou sweet Boyd that with thy watry sway Dost wash the cliffes of Deington and of Weeke And through their Rockes with crooked winding way Thy mother Avon runnest soft to seek.

[4] The authorship of the poem was a mystery for many years, having been published anonymously, and it was partly due to his mention of the rocks of Wick that he was finally identified.

Part of the site is managed by South Gloucestershire Council as the Golden Valley Local Nature Reserve.