Wykeham is a hamlet in

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, England. It is situated just off the

A169 road The A169 is an A road (UK), A road in North Yorkshire, England. It runs from the A64 road, A64 at Malton, North Yorkshire, Malton on the edge of the Yorkshire Wolds through the Vale of Pickering and across the North York Moors to join the A171 ...

and is north-east of Malton. Wykeham is mentioned in the

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as ''wicum'', and the name of the hamlet derives from

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and means t''the dwellings.'' Historically part of the Hundred of Maneshou, later the

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of Rydale, it is now part of the civil parish of Malton, and also part of the Thirsk and Malton Constituency. In 1301, the population of Wykeham and Howe was listed as being twelve, in the 2011 census, the population was included in that of Malton civil parish. From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the district of

Ryedale Ryedale was a non-metropolitan district in North Yorkshire, England. It was in the Vale of Pickering, a low-lying flat area of land drained by the River Derwent, Yorkshire, River Derwent. The Vale's landscape is rural with scattered villages ...

, it is now administered by the unitary

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Hamlets in North Yorkshire Malton, North Yorkshire {{NorthYorkshire-geo-stub