Westhide

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
List of places
UK
England
Herefordshire
52°05′35″N 2°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

References

  1. ^ a b "Population of Herefordshire Parishes, 2001" (PDF). Herefordshire Council. 2004. Retrieved 4 December 2010.[permanent dead link‍]
  2. ^ a b 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. ^ a b "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.