Wix
Wix may refer to: Computing * WiX (Windows Installer XML Toolset), a software toolset * Wix.com, an Israeli software company providing cloud-based web development services Places * Wix, Essex, United Kingdom * Vicques, Switzerland, formerly Other uses * Wix (name), a given name and surname * Wix Wickens or Wix (Paul Wickens, born 1956), keyboardist See also * Wicks (other) * Wickes (other) * Wicks (surname) Wicks is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Arthur Wicks (1915–2006), English politician * Ben Wicks (1926–2000), British-Canadian cartoonist, illustrator, journalist and author * Brian Wicks (born 1940), Australian ...

Wix, Essex
Wix is a village and civil parish in the Tendring district of north-east Essex, England. It lies in a small valley about south of the Stour Estuary. The valley drains east towards Harwich. Formerly an important crossroads on the route to Harwich, it has now been bypassed by the A120 road. The place-name 'Wix' is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it appears as ''Wica''. It appears as ''Wikes'' in 1191 in the Feet of Fines, and as ''Wiches'' in the Curia Regis Rolls in 1198. The name is the plural of the Old English 'wic', meaning a dairy farm.Eilert Ekwall, ''The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names'', p.529. St Mary's Church, Wix has a detached belfry, which stands in the churchyard and contains one bell. In 1961, the then owner of Wix Abbey Farm was ploughing in the church which was overgrown when he struck a large piece of dressed limestone, which with further investigation revealed a large stone coffin with a skeleton inside. Archaeologists ...
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