Wyke (population 14,180 –
2001 UK census
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The 2001 UK census was organised by the Office for National ...
) is an area of
Bradford
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and a
ward
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within the
City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council
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in the county of
West Yorkshire
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, England. The population taken at the 2011 Census was 14,958.
As well as the area of Wyke, the ward includes the adjoining hamlet of Lower Wyke, the area around Carr House, known as Carr House Gate, part of
Oakenshaw (the main part of which is in
Kirklees
Kirklees is a metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, England. The borough comprises the ten towns of Batley, Birstall, West Yorkshire, Birstall, Cleckheaton, Dewsbury, Heckmondwike, Holmfirth, Huddersfield, Meltham, Mirfield and Slaithwaite. It ...
), and most of
Low Moor. It is bordered on the east side by the
M606 motorway
The M606 is a stretch of motorway in West Yorkshire, England. Called the Bradford Spur motorway, the M606 leaves the M62 motorway at junction 26, near Cleckheaton, and heads into Bradford, to join the A6177 road, A6177 Bradford Ring Road. It is ...
and extends up to the Staygate roundabout on the north.
Wyke Methodist Church is located at Laverack Field in Wyke. The South Bradford Local History Alliance reports that "the
Wesleyan
Wesleyan theology, otherwise known as Wesleyan–Arminian theology, or Methodist theology, is a theological tradition in Protestant Christianity based upon the ministry of the 18th-century evangelical reformer brothers John Wesley and Charle ...
movement held meetings in Wyke in the mid-19th century at a property in Wyke Lane known as Bink’s Cottage, and later at the home of Joseph Clark near the Temperance Hall. The original chapel was built in 1869 and was officially opened in 1871. A Sunday School was added in 1913."
Councillors
Wyke is represented on
Bradford Council
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by three
Labour Party councillors, David Warburton, Sarah Ferriby and Rosie Watson.
indicates seat up for re-election.
History
Wyke was formerly a
township
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Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, this tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, Canad ...
and
chapelry
A chapelry was a subdivision of an ecclesiastical parish in England and parts of Lowland Scotland up to the mid 19th century.
Status
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in the parish of
Birstal
Birstall is a market and mill town in the metropolitan borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England. It is part of the Birstall and Birkenshaw ward, which had a population of 16,298 at the 2011 census. Historically in the West Riding of Yorksh ...
, in 1866 Wyke became a separate
civil parish
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. In 1951 the parish had a population of 5809.
See also
*
Listed buildings in Wyke
References
* (Internet Explorer only)
BBC election resultsCouncil ward profile(pdf)
External links
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Wards of Bradford
Villages in West Yorkshire
Former civil parishes in West Yorkshire