High Wych

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High Wych
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High Wych
Location within Hertfordshire
Population443  [1]
775 (2011 Census including Spellbrook) [2]
OS grid reference TL463143
Civil parish
  • High Wych
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town SAWBRIDGEWORTH
Postcode district CM21
Dialling code 01279
Police Hertfordshire
Fire Hertfordshire
Ambulance East of England
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England
Hertfordshire
51°48′32″N0°07′15″E / 51.808863°N 0.120776°E / 51.808863; 0.120776 Coordinates: 51°48′32″N0°07′15″E / 51.808863°N 0.120776°E / 51.808863; 0.120776

High Wych is a village and civil parish in the East Hertfordshire district of Hertfordshire, England. The village is located a little over one mile south-west of the town of Sawbridgeworth, and around three miles north-east of Harlow in the neighbouring county of Essex.

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The parish includes the settlements of Great Pennys, Trimms Green, Sacombs Ash, Allens Green, Chandlers, Carters, Rook End, Hoskins and Sayes Park. [3] The village contains a Church of England primary school [4] and a late 19th-century church, St James, with a marble reredos [3] and a Father Willis organ. [5] A moated site is all that remains of the medieval residence of Mathams. [3] There is also a Georgian historical house called the Manor of Groves which is now a hotel.

High Wych was historically part of the parish of Sawbridgeworth. It became a separate ecclesiastical parish in 1862. [6] High Wych remained part of the civil parish of Sawbridgeworth until 1 April 1901 when it became a separate civil parish. [7]

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References

  1. "Towns » High Wych, Herts". Hertfordshire.com. Retrieved 16 May 2013.
  2. "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 2 November 2016.
  3. 1 2 3 "High Wych, Hertfordshire". Hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk. Retrieved 16 May 2013.
  4. "High Wych School - Home Page". Highwych.herts.sch.uk. 12 May 2013. Retrieved 16 May 2013.
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  6. "At the Court at Windsor, the 21st day of March, 1862". London Gazette (22611): 1605. 25 March 1862. Retrieved 26 December 2021. District Chapelry of Saint James, High Wych
  7. Annual Report of the Local Government Board. London: His Majesty's Stationery Office. 1901. p. 344. Retrieved 26 December 2021.

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