Wike is a township and small village, partly in Harewood and Bardsey parishes, 1 ½ miles south-east from Harewood, 2 from Bardsey station and 8 south-east from Otley, in Wetherby union, upper division of Skyrack wapentake. The Wesleyans hold their services on Sunday afternoons in a cottage. The Earl of Harewood is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The soil is clayey; the subsoil is clay. The chief crops are wheat and potatoes. The area is 879 acres; rateable value, £1,164; and the population in 1871 was 114.

There is an endowed school with residence for the master, erected in 1762 by the late Lady Elizabeth Hastings, for 10 children who are elected by the trustees, the other children of the village are admitted by weekly payments: the building was repaired & greatly improved in 1878, by the trustees, & now forms a large room with open timber roof & will seat 70 persons; Church of England services are held here every alternate Sunday evening by the vicar of Bardsey: James Reeves, master.