The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wyke \Wyke\, n.
Week. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.
Wikipedia
Wyke (population 14,180 - 2001 UK census) is a Ward in Bradford Metropolitan District in the county of West Yorkshire, England, named after the village of Wyke. The population taken at the 2011 Census was 14,958.
As well as the area of Wyke, the ward includes the adjoining hamlet of Lower Wyke, the area around Carr House, known as Carr House Gate, part of Oakenshaw (the main part of which is in Kirklees), and most of Low Moor. It is bordered on the east side by the M606 motorway and extends up to the Staygate roundabout on the north.
Wyke Methodist Church is located at Laverack Field in Wyke. The South Bradford Local History Alliance reports that "the Wesleyan movement held meetings in Wyke in the mid-19th century at a property in Wyke Lane known as Bink’s Cottage, and later at the home of Joseph Clark near the Temperance Hall. The original chapel was built in 1869 and was officially opened in 1871. A Sunday School was added in 1913."
WYKE (104.3 FM) is a radio station licensed to Inglis, Florida, USA, and covering much of Citrus County, Florida. The station is currently owned by the Citrus County Association For Retarded Citizens, which also owns and operates class A TV station WYKE-CD.
Wyke may refer to:
- Wyke, the area of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England
- Wyke, Surrey, the hamlet near Guildford, Surrey, England
- Wyke, Shropshire, the hamlet near Much Wenlock, Shropshire, England
- Charles Lennox Wyke, British diplomat
- Wike, West Yorkshire, the hamlet near Leeds, West Yorkshire, England
- WYKE (FM) 104.3, a radio station in Inglis, Florida, United States
- WYKE-CD channel 47, a television station in Inglis, Florida, United States
Usage examples of "wyke".
Vineyard, Gamaliel Wyke had come to terms with nothing less than the Decalogue.
Keogh was a Wyke in all but blood and breeding: Wyke owned him and all he owned, which was a great deal.
Guy Gibbon in his life was his first encounter with the Wyke entity, and like many a person before and since, he had not the faintest idea he had done so.
Old Jimmy Wyke and his brothers, who played accordions, must practise together and take turn about with the radio-gramophone.
Vineyard where, to the accompaniment of tolling breakers and creaking gulls, he gave the boy an education to which all the schooling of all the Wykes for all of four generations would be mere addenda.
He belonged to the Wykes entity for only eight and a half weeks, after all.
Thomas Wykes mentions it to have been very large, for the reason that the number of fools is said to be infinite!