Westhide
Westhide Church
Westhide is located in Herefordshire
Westhide
Westhide
Location within Herefordshire
Population79 (Parish)[1]
OS grid referenceSO586440
• London114 miles (183 km) ESE
Civil parish
  • Westhide
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townHEREFORD
Postcode districtHR1
Dialling code01432
PoliceWest Mercia
FireHereford and Worcester
AmbulanceWest Midlands
UK Parliament

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]

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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.
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