Wyke, Surrey
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 Wyke Primary School |
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 St Mark's, the Parish Church of Wyke |
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 Wyke
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| Wyke shown within Surrey | |
| Area | 16.37 km2 (6.32 sq mi) |
| Population | 2,981 (area and population applies to civil and ecclesiastical parish in which Normandy and Wyke are indistinct from each other, as opposed to various map distinctions) |
| • Density | 182/km2 (470/sq mi) |
| OS grid reference | SU9151 |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Guildford |
| Postcode district | GU3 |
| Dialling code | 01483 |
| Police | Surrey |
| Fire | Surrey |
| Ambulance | South East Coast |
| EU Parliament | South East England |
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Wyke is a rural and suburban village in Surrey, England. Its local government district is the Borough of Guildford. The nearest town is Aldershot, 2 miles (3.2 km) west although the large village/town of Ash, Surrey is 1 mile (1.6 km) west and has more shops than smaller Wyke and adjacent Normandy combined. Normandy, Surrey is also dispersed yet is typically marked just 0.25 miles (0.40 km) east, near its manors. Normandy, Flexford and Christmas Pie share the parish church of Wyke, being relatively central to the four former hamlets. Wyke shares in the sports associations and community groups of Normandy.
Wyke unlike the larger settlement of Flexford, Normandy appears in Domesday Book of 1086 as Wucha held by Godric from (Turald) Thorold under Roger de/of Montgomery. It was part of Burpham manor and was valued underneath its listing. As heads of household it had four villagers, three smallholders, one serf (a form of slavery abolished by the time of the Magna Carta), two ploughlands and woodland for 83 pigs, 25 acres of meadow and a mill worth 15s per year. It rendered 8 pound sterling per year to its feudal system overlords.
One side of the roadside common of Normandy has medieval homes and farmhouses, 0.25 miles (0.40 km) east. Wyke has two farmhouses pre-dating 1600.
Wyke as a wider parish than its topographical definition was formed out of Ash, Worplesdon and Wanborough in 1847 when its church was built. Most of this combined land of Wyke, Normandy, Flexford and Christmas Pie was an outcrop of Worplesdon surrounded by the south-east of the parish of St Peter, Ash, which was the largest medieval parish in Woking Hundred.
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