Westhide is a village and
civil parish in
Herefordshire, England, north-east of
Hereford
Hereford () is a cathedral city, civil parish and the county town of Herefordshire, England. It lies on the River Wye, approximately east of the border with Wales, south-west of Worcester and north-west of Gloucester. With a population ...
.
The parish had a population of 79 in the
2001 UK Census
A nationwide census, known as Census 2001, was conducted in the United Kingdom on Sunday, 29 April 2001. This was the 20th UK census and recorded a resident population of 58,789,194.
The 2001 UK census was organised by the Office for National ...
and is grouped with
Preston Wynne
Preston Wynne is a small village and civil parish in Herefordshire, England. Civil parish population at the United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011 census was 172.
Preston Wynne is north-east from Hereford, and south-east from Leominster. The hamlet ...
and
Withington to form Withington Group Parish Council for administrative purposes.
The village lies on hilly farmland and to the south is Shucknall Hill.
The
parish church is dedicated to
St Bartholomew and has a large but short 12th-century tower.
In the churchyard are the remains of a
medieval preaching cross
A preaching cross is a Christian cross sometimes surmounting a pulpit, which is erected outdoors to designate a preaching place.
In Great Britain, Britain and Ireland, many free-standing upright crosses – or high crosses – were erected. Some ...
now topped by an 18th-century
sundial
A sundial is a horological device that tells the time of day (referred to as civil time in modern usage) when direct sunlight shines by the apparent position of the Sun in the sky. In the narrowest sense of the word, it consists of a flat ...
.
It went through a major restoration during the nineteenth century by architec
Thomas Blashill, FRIBA which included an addition of a south-facing porch.
The course of the
Herefordshire and Gloucestershire Canal
The Herefordshire and Gloucestershire Canal (sometimes known as the Hereford and Gloucester Canal) is a canal in the west of England, which ran from Hereford to Gloucester, where it linked to the River Severn. It was opened in two phases in 1798 ...
runs just north of the village.
See also
More information is to be found on the Group Parish's website
References
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
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Villages in Herefordshire
