Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WYKE

WYKE, a tything in Worplesdon parish, and a chapelry partly also in Ash and Wamborough parishes, Surrey. The tything lies 1½ mile NW of Guildford r. station. Pop., 158. The chapelry was constituted in 1847; and its Post town is Guildford. Rated property, £3,096. Pop., 521. Houses, 94. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £170.* Patron, Eton College. The church was built in 1858.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a tything"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Ash CP       Surrey AncC
Place: Wyke

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