[5] The village lay on the Old Saltway from Droitwich to Old Sodbury and Pucklechurch,[6] and was developed in the 13th century by the de la Warre family with the establishment of a market in 1285.

Burghers paid an annual fixed rent to the overlord and they carried on trades and crafts which, together with their property rights, distinguished them from the feudal peasant.

[8] The original settlement of Wickwar was located around the church and Poole Court, a 16th-century Manor House demolished in the 19th century, to the north of the village.

At the northern edge of the village, it is reached by a raised footpath called the Stank, meaning "dam" – there were fish ponds here until the 19th century.

In April 2020, after hostility from the local area, a new home development in the village was targeted in a suspected arson attack, severely damaging a partially completed property.

[17] As a result of the explosion, a ban on heavy vehicles was introduced throughout the village, as it was thought that frequent use of the road by lorries, coupled with freezing weather conditions, had caused the 1950s pipes to break.

In August 2021 the farm owned by Helen Macdonald in Wickwar became the focal point of a controversial decision by DEFRA to kill an alpaca named Geronimo after the animal tested positive for bovine tuberculosis.