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Westhide
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Westhide Church
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Westhide
Location within Herefordshire
Population79 (Parish) [1]
OS grid reference SO586440
  London 114 miles (183 km)  ESE
Civil parish
  • Westhide
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
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
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UK
England
Herefordshire
52°05′35″N2°36′14″W / 52.093°N 2.604°W / 52.093; -2.604 Coordinates: 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+14 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]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Population of Herefordshire Parishes, 2001" (pdf). Herefordshire Council. 2004. Retrieved 4 December 2010.
  2. 1 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. 1 2 "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.