Westhide

Westhide

Westhide

A village in Herefordshire, England

Westhide is a village and civil parish in Herefordshire, England, 5+1⁄4 miles (8.4 km) north-east of Hereford.[2] The parish had a population of 79 in the 2001 UK Census[1] and is grouped with Preston Wynne and Withington to form Withington Group Parish Council for administrative purposes.[3] The village lies on hilly farmland and to the south is Shucknall Hill.[4]

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The parish church is dedicated to St Bartholomew and has a large but short 12th-century tower.[5] In the churchyard are the remains of a medieval preaching cross now topped by an 18th-century sundial.[6] It went through a major restoration during the nineteenth century by architect Thomas Blashill, FRIBA, which included an addition of a south-facing porch.[4]

The course of the Herefordshire and Gloucestershire Canal runs just north of the village.[2]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    "Population of Herefordshire Parishes, 2001" (pdf). Herefordshire Council. 2004. Retrieved 4 December 2010.[permanent dead link]
  2. [2]
    Leominster & Bromyard (Explorer Maps) (A1 ed.), Ordnance Survey, 2006, ISBN 978-0-319-23759-5
  3. [3]
    "List of Parish Councils and Contacts" (xls). Herefordshire Council. Retrieved 4 December 2010.
  4. [4]
    "St Bartholomew, Westhide, Herefordshire". The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain & Ireland. king's College London. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
  5. [5]
    Pevsner, Nikolaus (1963). The Buildings of England - Herefordshire. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. p. 314. ISBN 978-0-300-09609-5.
  6. [6]
    "Churchyard Cross, Westhide". Herefordshire Through Time. Herefordshire Council. Retrieved 12 December 2010.
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