Wyke, Surrey
Historical Description
Wyke, an ecclesiastical district in Worplesdon parish, and a chapelry partly also in Ash and Wamborough parishes, Surrey. The district lies 1½ mile NW of Guildford station on the L. & S.W.R. The chapelry was constituted in 1847, and its post town is Guildford. Population, 709. Henley Park and Westwood are the chief residences. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Winchester; gross value, £235. Patron, Eton College. The church was built in 1858.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Surrey | |
Civil parish | Worplesdon | |
Hundred | Woking | |
Poor Law union | Guildford |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
Ancestry.co.uk, in association with Surrey History Centre, have images of the Parish Registers for Surrey online.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Wyke from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Surrey is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Wyke are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Surrey papers online:
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitation of Surrey, 1662-1668 is available on the Heraldry page.