Wyke is a rural and suburban village in

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, England. Its local government district is the

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. The nearest town is

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, west although the large village/town of Ash, Surrey is west and has more shops than smaller Wyke and adjacent Normandy combined.

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is also dispersed yet is typically marked just east, near its manors. Normandy, Flexford and Christmas Pie share the

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of Wyke, being relatively central to the four former

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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

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of 1086 as ''Wucha'' held by Godric from (Turald) Thorold under Roger de/of Montgomery. It was part of Burpham 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

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), two ploughlands and woodland for 83 pigs, 25 acres of meadow and a mill worth 15s per year. It rendered 8

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per year to its

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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

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than its topographical definition was formed out of Ash,

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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

surrounded by the south-east of the parish of St Peter, Ash, which was the largest medieval parish in Woking Hundred.

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 and West End, Surrey. 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)

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towards the escarpment shielding the

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training land directly north of Wyke, but otherwise is a

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mixture. Its local government district is the

. The nearest town is

, west although the large village of Ash, Surrey 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

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building of which completed in November 1846 as a chapel.
Normandy Village School
part of the South Farnham Educational Trust, is a primary 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

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, that of

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.Wyke
Diocese of Guildford, The Church of England

Notable residents

* James Stirling, former Governor of

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is buried in St Marks Churchyard in Wyke.

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