A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
WIKE, or Wyke, a township-chapelry in Birstal parish, W. R. Yorkshire; near Picklebridge r. station, and 4½ miles S of Bradford. It has a post-office under Normanton. Acres, 920. Real property, £10,949; of which £6,200 are in mines. Pop. in 1851, 2,916; in 1861, 3,016. Houses, 659. The manor belongs to the Low Moor Company. There are two worsted mills, dye-works, and a card manufactory. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £155.* Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop. The church was built in 1847; is in the early English style; and has a spire 120 feet high. There are an Independent chapel, a Moravian settlement, and a national school.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a township-chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Yorkshire AncC |
| Place names: | WIKE | WIKE OR WYKE | WYKE |
| Place: | Wyke |
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