Wyke is a hamlet in Surrey

Surrey

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, England

England

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. Formerly within the parish of St Peter, Ash, it is now its own ecclesiastical parish

Parish

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 (that of St Mark, a church built in November 1846 as a chapel), and lies within the civil parish

Civil parish

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 of Normandy

Normandy, Surrey

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.

Wyke appears in Domesday Book

Domesday Book

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 of 1086 as Wucha. It was held by Godric from (Turald) Thorold from Roger de Montgomery. It was part of Burpham

Burpham

Burpham is a village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. The village is on an arm of the River Arun slightly less than northeast of Arundel.The civil parish has an area of...

 manor and was valued there. It had one plough in hand, four villagers, three smallholders with one plough, one slave and woodland for three pigs.

Notable residents

• James Stirling
  James Stirling (Australian governor)
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  , former Governor of Western Australia
  Western Australia
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  is buried in St Marks Churchyard in Wyke.

External links

• St. Mark's Church,Wyke - local history site