Wyke is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1844 from Birstall Ancient Parish.
Alternative names: Wike, Birstall St Mary, Wike near Bradford
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1844
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1845
Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational, Moravian/United Brethren, Primitive Methodist, Protestant Dissenters, and Wesleyan Methodist.
Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
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.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
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England, Yorkshire, Wyke
England, Yorkshire, Wike (near Bradford) – Cemeteries ( 7 )
Inscription on headstones in churchyard of Wyke (nr. Bradford) Yorkshire, England
Monumental inscriptions in Yorkshire
Author: Gardner, David Ensign, 1915-2007
Monumental inscriptions of Wyke Cemetery
Monumental inscriptions of Wyke Cemetery
Monumental inscriptions of Wyke Independent Church, Westfield Chapel
Monumental inscriptions of Wyke Morvian Church
Monumental inscriptions, Wyke, York, England, 1830-1965
England, Yorkshire, Wike (near Bradford) – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Wike, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office
England, Yorkshire, Wike (near Bradford) – Church history ( 1 )
Two hundred years of Christian witness at Gomersal, Mirfield and at Wyke, 1755 to 1955
England, Yorkshire, Wike (near Bradford) – Church records ( 5 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Birstall, 1598-1878
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Birstall (Yorkshire)
Bishop’s transcripts for Wike, near Bradford, 1845-1868
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Wike (near Bradford, Yorkshire)
Church records, 1843-1923
Author: Wike Congregational Chapel (Yorkshire); Westfield Independent Chapel (Wike, Yorkshire)
Parish registers for Shipley, 1826-1902
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Shipley (Yorkshire)
Parish registers for Wike, near Bradford, 1844-1918
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Wike (near Bradford, Yorkshire)
England, Yorkshire, Wike (near Bradford) – Church records – Indexes ( 3 )
Births, baptisms and burials, 1800-1837
Author: Moravian Church (Wike, England)
Computer printout of Wyke by Bradford, United Brethren or Moravian, Yorks., Eng
Parish register printouts of Wike (near Bradford), Yorkshire, England (Moravian) ; christenings, 1800-1837
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department
England, Yorkshire, Wike (near Bradford) – Officials and employees ( 1 )
Town records, 1750-1838
Author: Wike (Yorkshire)
England, Yorkshire, Wike (near Bradford) – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 1 )
Town records, 1750-1838
Author: Wike (Yorkshire)
England, Yorkshire, Wike (near Bradford) – Public records ( 1 )
Town records, 1750-1838
Author: Wike (Yorkshire)
England, Yorkshire, Wike (near Bradford) – Taxation ( 1 )
Land tax assessments for Wike township, 1781-1832
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)
Administration
- County: Yorkshire
- Civil Registration District: Bradford
- Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
- Diocese: Post-1835 – Ripon, Pre-1836 – York
- Rural Deanery: Pontefract
- Poor Law Union: North Bierley
- Hundred: Morley
- Province: York
