Westhide

Westhide
Westhide Church
Westhide Location within Herefordshire
Population	79 (Parish) [1]
OS grid reference	SO586440
•  London	114 miles (183 km)  ESE
Civil parish	Westhide
Unitary authority	Herefordshire
Ceremonial county	Herefordshire
Region	West Midlands
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	HEREFORD
Postcode district	HR1
Dialling code	01432
Police	West Mercia
Fire	Hereford and Worcester
Ambulance	West Midlands
UK Parliament	North Herefordshire
List of places UK England Herefordshire 52°05′35″N2°36′14″W / 52.093°N 2.604°W / 52.093; -2.604

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]

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

• More information is to be found on the Group Parish's website

References

1. "Population of Herefordshire Parishes, 2001" (PDF). Herefordshire Council. 2004. Retrieved 4 December 2010.^{[ permanent dead link ]}
2. Leominster & Bromyard (Explorer Maps) (A1 ed.), Ordnance Survey, 2006, ISBN   978-0-319-23759-5
3. "List of Parish Councils and Contacts" (xls). Herefordshire Council . Retrieved 4 December 2010.
4. "St Bartholomew, Westhide, Herefordshire". The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain & Ireland. king's College London . Retrieved 19 August 2018.
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. "Churchyard Cross, Westhide". Herefordshire Through Time. Herefordshire Council . Retrieved 12 December 2010.

External links

• Westhide, GENUKI genealogy web portal
• List of monuments in the parish
  • Most of the sites are on private property and are not open to the public