Weeke or Wyke, Hampshire

Historical Description

Weeke or Wyke, a parish in Hants, partly within Winchester city, and containing Winchester station on The L. & S.W.R., and Winchester workhouse. Post town, Winchester. Acreage, 1093; population, 2549. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Winchester; net value, £200. Patron, the Bishop of Winchester. The church is Norman. St Paul's chapel of ease was erected in 1889.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient County	Hampshire
Ecclesiastical parish	Week St. Mary
Hundred	Buddlesgate
Poor Law union	Winchester

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Weeke or Wyke from the following:

Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Week (St. Mary))

Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Hampshire (County Southampton) is available to browse.

Maps

Online maps of Weeke or 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 Hampshire newspapers online:

Visitations Heraldic

The Visitations of Hampshire, 1530, 1575, & 1622-34 is available to view on the Heraldry page.