Wickham, Hampshire viaduct across the Meon Valley, and the presence of tunnels further north. Wickham Railway Station Chesapeake Mill William of Wykeham Wickham, Hampshire Wickham is a small village and civil parish in Hampshire, England, about three miles north of Fareham. At the 2001 census, it had a population of 4,816, falling to 4,299 at the 2011 Census. Wickham has a wide and well-proportioned square lined with historic buildings and is designated a conservation area. It was the fording place of the River Meon on the Roman road between Noviomagus Regnorum (Chichester) and Venta Belgarum (Winchester), and the inferred divergent point of
New England town concept. Districts have not been at all common since the first half of the 19th century, and there have not been any districts anywhere in New England in over a century. Maine is the only New England state that currently has a significant amount of territory that is not sufficiently populated to support town governments, thus the only New England state that still has a need for the plantation type of municipality. For a historical example in New Hampshire, see Plantation number four. Perhaps because the towns themselves are such strong entities, most areas of New England never developed municipal