Wyke is a rural and suburban village in
Surrey
Surrey () is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in South East England, bordering Greater London to the south west. Surrey has a large rural area, and several significant urban areas which form part of the Greater London Built-up Area. ...
, England. Its local government district is the
Borough of Guildford
The Borough of Guildford is a local government district with borough status in Surrey, England. With around half of the borough's population, Guildford is its largest settlement and only town, and is the location of the council.
The district w ...
. The nearest town is
Aldershot
Aldershot () is a town in Hampshire, England. It lies on heathland in the extreme northeast corner of the county, southwest of London. The area is administered by Rushmoor Borough Council. The town has a population of 37,131, while the Alders ...
, west although the large village/town of
Ash, Surrey
Ash is a village and civil parish in the far west of the borough of Guildford, Surrey. Ash is on the eastern side of the River Blackwater, with a station on the Reading-Guildford-Gatwick line, and direct roads to Aldershot, Farnham and Guildf ...
is west and has more shops than smaller Wyke and adjacent Normandy combined.
Normandy, Surrey
Normandy is a civil parishes in England, civil parish of in the borough of Guildford in Surrey, England and the name of the largest village in that parish. Almost surrounded by its hill ranges, Normandy is in the plain west of Guildford, stradd ...
is also
dispersed yet is typically marked just east, near its manors. Normandy, Flexford and Christmas Pie share the
parish church
A parish church (or parochial church) in Christianity is the church which acts as the religious centre of a parish. In many parts of the world, especially in rural areas, the parish church may play a significant role in community activities, ...
of Wyke, being relatively central to the four former
hamlet
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s. Wyke shares in the sports associations and community groups of Normandy.
History
Wyke, unlike the larger settlement of
Flexford, appears in the
Domesday Book
Domesday Book () – the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book" – is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William I, known as William the Conqueror. The manusc ...
of 1086 as ''Wucha'' held by Godric from (Turald) Thorold under Roger de/of Montgomery. It was part of
Burpham
Burpham is a rural village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. The village is on an arm of the River Arun slightly less than northeast of Arundel.
A slight minority of the population qualifies as within the workin ...
manor and was valued underneath its listing. As heads of household it had four villagers, three smallholders, one serf (a form of slavery abolished by the time of the
Magna Carta
(Medieval Latin for "Great Charter of Freedoms"), commonly called (also ''Magna Charta''; "Great Charter"), is a royal charter of rights agreed to by King John of England at Runnymede, near Windsor, on 15 June 1215. First drafted by the ...
), two ploughlands and woodland for 83 pigs, 25 acres of meadow and a mill worth 15s per year. It rendered 8
pound sterling
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per year to its
feudal system
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overlords.
One side of the roadside common of Normandy has medieval homes and farmhouses, east. Wyke has two farmhouses pre-dating 1600.
Wyke as a wider
parish
A parish is a territorial entity in many Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest, often termed a parish priest, who might be assisted by one or m ...
than its topographical definition was formed out of Ash,
Worplesdon
Worplesdon is a village NNW of Guildford in Surrey, England and a large dispersed civil parish that includes the settlements of: Worplesdon itself (including its central church area, Perry Hill), Fairlands, Jacobs Well, Rydeshill and Wood S ...
and
Wanborough in 1847 when its church was built.
Most of this combined land of Wyke, Normandy, Flexford and Christmas Pie was an outcrop of
Worplesdon
Worplesdon is a village NNW of Guildford in Surrey, England and a large dispersed civil parish that includes the settlements of: Worplesdon itself (including its central church area, Perry Hill), Fairlands, Jacobs Well, Rydeshill and Wood S ...
surrounded by the south-east of the parish of St Peter, Ash, which was the largest medieval parish in
Woking Hundred
:''See Woking for the town or Borough of Woking for the district.''
Woking was a hundred in what is now Surrey, England. It includes the town of Woking and the Borough of Woking.
The Hundred comprised the parishes of:
Ash
Ash or ashes are ...
.
Geography
The maximum elevation is 118m at Normandy/Gravel Pit hill in the north, at the south of the long ridge known as the Chobham Ranges, but between
Deepcut
Deepcut is a village in the Borough of Surrey Heath in Surrey, England, approximately southwest of central London. The nearest towns are Camberley, Surrey ( to the north) and Farnborough, Hampshire (3 mi to the west). Deepcut is named af ...
and
West End, Surrey
West End is a village and civil parish in Surrey Heath, Surrey, England, approximately southwest of central London. It is midway between the towns of Camberley and Woking, to the west and east respectively. The River Bourne rises from its so ...
. The minimum is 50m at Westwood Hall, a former
manor, at the start of the Normandy locality, where the headwaters of a brook merge into one in the east. The soil is sandy and (acidic)
heath
A heath () is a shrubland habitat found mainly on free-draining infertile, acidic soils and characterised by open, low-growing woody vegetation. Moorland is generally related to high-ground heaths with—especially in Great Britain—a cooler ...
towards the escarpment shielding the
Ministry of Defence
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training land directly north of Wyke, but otherwise is a
loam
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/
clay
Clay is a type of fine-grained natural soil material containing clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolin, Al2 Si2 O5( OH)4).
Clays develop plasticity when wet, due to a molecular film of water surrounding the clay par ...
mixture.
[
Its local government district is the ]Borough of Guildford
The Borough of Guildford is a local government district with borough status in Surrey, England. With around half of the borough's population, Guildford is its largest settlement and only town, and is the location of the council.
The district w ...
. The nearest town is Aldershot
Aldershot () is a town in Hampshire, England. It lies on heathland in the extreme northeast corner of the county, southwest of London. The area is administered by Rushmoor Borough Council. The town has a population of 37,131, while the Alders ...
, west although the large village of Ash, Surrey
Ash is a village and civil parish in the far west of the borough of Guildford, Surrey. Ash is on the eastern side of the River Blackwater, with a station on the Reading-Guildford-Gatwick line, and direct roads to Aldershot, Farnham and Guildf ...
is west and has many amenities. Normandy, Surrey can also be categorised as dispersed rather than polyfocal but has slightly more amenities.
Amenities
Wyke has one place of worship, that of St Mark in the Church of England
The Church of England (C of E) is the established Christian church in England and the mother church of the international Anglican Communion. It traces its history to the Christian church recorded as existing in the Roman province of Britain ...
building of which completed in November 1846 as a chapel.
Wyke Primary School is a county-supported school (ages 4–11) on School Lane. Its roots are Wyke National (Secular) School in 1874 which was enlarged 1896.[
For recreational and community hall purposes Wyke has a ]civil parish
In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ...
, that of Normandy
Normandy (; french: link=no, Normandie ; nrf, Normaundie, Nouormandie ; from Old French , plural of ''Normant'', originally from the word for "northman" in several Scandinavian languages) is a geographical and cultural region in Northwestern ...
.Wyke
Diocese of Guildford, The Church of England
Notable residents
* James Stirling, former Governor of Western Australia
Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to th ...
is buried in St Marks Churchyard in Wyke.
See also
References
External links
St. Mark's Church, Wyke - local history site
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Villages in Surrey