Wyke, Surrey

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Wyke
Surrey
Wyke Primary School - geograph.org.uk - 1017902.jpg
Wyke Primary School
Location
Grid reference: SU922511
Location: 51°15’9"N, 0°40’48"W
Data
Population: 2,981  (2011)
Post town: Guildford
Postcode: GU3
Dialling code: 01483
Local Government
Council: Guildford
Parliamentary
constituency:
Woking

Wyke is a rural and suburban village in Surrey, whose nearest town is Aldershot, two miles to the west across the border in Hampshire: closer though is Ash in Surrey, a mile to the west and which has local shops. Nearby too is the larger village of Normandy, also a dispersed village. Normandy, Flexford and Christmas Pie share the parish church of Wyke, being relatively central to the four former hamlets. Wyke shares in the sports associations and community groups of Normandy.

St Mark's, Wyke

Wyke as a wider parish than its topographical definition was formed out of Ash, Worplesdon and Wanborough in 1847 when its church was built.[1] Most of this combined land of Wyke, Normandy, Flexford and Christmas Pie was an outcrop of Worplesdon surrounded by the south-east of the parish of St Peter, Ash, which was the largest mediæval parish in Woking Hundred.[1]

About the village

Wyke has one place of worship, that of St Mark in the Church of England building of which completed in November 1846 as a chapel.

Wyke Primary School is a school on School Lane. Its roots are Wyke National (Secular) School in 1874 which was enlarged 1896.

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References

  1. 1.0 1.1 The Hundred of Woking: Introduction and map@A History of the County of Surrey - Volume 3 pp @: The Hundred of Woking: Introduction and map (Victoria County History)