TOURS OF WICKEN SETTLEMENTS AND MIGRATION ROUTES

Currently under development, this section will contain field guides for tours, reports and comments on physical tours, and virtual tours using Google Earth. Locations will relate to the origin of the Wicken in the 3rd century and of all their subsequent settlements and migrations through the 6th century.  Tour sites include the Wicken den in the Weald of Kent and the Kingdom of Hwicce in the Western Midlands.  There are also several tours of recent Wickenden family settlements in the 19th through the 21st century.

Wickenden Families - Tour Field Guides

1. Wingham Cluster Field Guide - The following Field Guide is for a tour of the Wingham Cluster. Located between the (former) Isle of Thanet and Canterbury, this cluster of hamlets was where groups of Wicken landed and settled after crossing the Strait of Dover from Wickenburg on the southern coast of the Netherlands. Under the tribal name of Wicingas, this cluster of hamlets is where the migrants first organized into a tribe and from where they continued to migrate across Britain over the decades. This was also the location from which they migrated through the Weald of Kent to Wickenden in Cowden and from which they were deployed up to East Anglia and subsequently revolted and moved on to establish the medieval kingdom of the Hwicce in the West Midlands. The Field Guide, developed with the assistance of Microsoft Copilot, includes a map, an itinerary, a route through the hamlets, and a historical dossier.

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2. Migration to Cowden Field Guide. The next Field Guide to be developed will follow the migration of groups of Wicingas along with their herds from Wychdene in St. Peters in Thanet across the Weald to Wickenden in Cowden. The tour will follow the droves and Roman roads across which the Wicken migrated in the search for open and accessible land in which to settle. The Field Guide includes a sequence of dens established by the Wicken along this route.

3. Village of Cowden Field Guide. Another Field Guide to be developed will focus upon the parish and village of Cowden. It will include the site of the Wicken den and the dozen or so homes, settlements and locations developed by, occupied by, or associated with the Wicken. 

Wickenden Families - Tour Reports

Wickenden Families - Virtual Tours

3RD - 6TH CENTURY

#1 - Origin of the Wicken,  https://youtu.be/Xu4N_qE8pnE.

#2 - Affiliation with the Angles,

#2b - Walking through Schwerin Castle with a Google Camera, 

#3 - Migration to the Channel, 

#4 - Landing on Thanet

#5 - Migration into the Weald of Kent

#5b - Walking through Cowden to Wickenden

#6 - Deployment from London north to the Wash

#7 - Migration to the East Midlands

#8 - Migration to the Western Midlands

#8b - An Anglian Alliance between Wicingas and Iclingas

#9 - The Wicken become the Hwicce

#10 - All the way from Wickendorf to Wichenford

19TH - 21ST CENTURY

#11 - Thomas Wickenden Family in Rochester, Kent

#12 - Thomas Rogers Wickenden Family in Toledo, Ohio

#13 - Thomas Howard Wickenden Family in Short Hills, NJ

#14 - Thomas Howard Wickenden II Family in Flagstaff, AZ