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Wickham has it's own public holiday, during which the residents form a naked conga line and dance to a nearby town chosen at random.


Television cameras are illegal in Wickham unless operated by a member of the clergy.


There is a small cave in Wickham known as 'Wickham Nook'. Nobody has ever come out of it alive.


MI6 have, on many occasions, denied all knowledge of Wickham or it's existance


Wickham's busiest motorway is completely straight. Regardless, driving for long enough will bring you back to where you started.


Many of Wickham's older residents are believed to be clinically dead, despite still being capable of basic bodily functions such as speech.


Portsmouth's Spinnaker Tower is based on a much larger monument that used to stand in Wickham Square. To this day nobody knows who stole it.



Wickham has its own religion. It involves the daily worship of Adge Cutler, whose ghost haunts the barn of one of the local farms.



The original DeLorean from the Back to the Future movies is owned by a Wickham resident. The time travel function no longer works.


Wickham's flag is a picture of a rooster wearing dungarees and a safety pin through it's beak waving an inverted crucifix


Wickham actually has no gravity. The pressure due to the high density of the air keeps heavy objects on the ground.





Every sink in Wickham has a third tap in addition to the usual two. Nobody knows what it does.


Wickham residents automatically have diplomatic immunity when travelling abroad. This almost never happens.


Wickham, despite its large population and massive land mass, has only one postal code.


Wickham dissappeared from the face of the earth for 9.27 seconds in 1962. Nobody claims to have any memory of the incident


Wickham's hospital closes at weekends, when it is used as an abattoir.


Fred Dineage lives in Wickham.... in an underground bunker, next to one of the active volcanos.


Like the Great Wall of China, Wickham is clearly visible from the surface of the moon.



It is illegal for goats to wear feminine clothing in Wickham, regardless of the gender of the goat


Wickham used to have its own stock exchange until it was bought for £1 (one Wickham pound, equal to 97p sterling) after a crash in the 70s


No hostile samurai have been reported in Wickham for over a month now


The lowest recorded temperature in the coldest part of Wickham was recorded in the 1870s. The ambient temperature reached -272 degrees C.



Every pub in Wickham is haunted. The Goat's Head Inn once tried claiming that it wasn't, but this later turned out to be a publicity stunt.



The soil in Wickham has to be replaced every year because of high quality regulations


Wickham has a mythical big cat, similar to the Beast of Bodmin Moor, although the Beast of Wickham lives in a flat above the greengrocers.


"The Wombles" is filmed in Wickham, as are the underwater "Thunderbirds" and "Stingray" sequences


The most commonly asked for childrens' Christmas present last year in Wickham was a World War II Czekoslovakian service medal



Wickham has a land mass equalling that of the United States. It's just really dense.


Wickham Lab is renowned for its cloning experiments, and provides most of the un-natural animals required for sci-fi and fantasy movies. Its crowning achievement was Falcor the Luck Dragon from the Neverending Story, who now lives in Wickham under a false identity.


Residents of Wickham celebrate Christmas Eve on the 21st of December, rather than the 24th. Christmas Day is still the 25th.


Shares in aggricultural machinery crashed in the mid 70s. This is generally blamed on the release of "Combine Harvester" by the Wurzels.