Westhide

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Westhide
Herefordshire
Westhide Church - geograph.org.uk - 145484.jpg
Westhide Church
Location
Grid reference: SO585441
Location: 52°5’39"N, 2°36’21"W
Data
Population: 79  (parish)
Post town: Hereford
Postcode: HR1
Dialling code: 01432
Local Government
Council: Herefordshire
Parliamentary
constituency:
North Herefordshire

Westhide is a village in Herefordshire, five miles north-east of Hereford. The parish had a population of 79 in the 2001 UK Census.

The village stands on hilly farmland and to the south is Shucknall Hill.[1]

The parish church is dedicated to St Bartholomew and has a large but short 12th-century tower.[2] In the churchyard stand the remains of a mediæval preaching cross now topped by an 18th-century sundial.[3] It went through a major restoration during the nineteenth century by Thomas Blashill, which included an addition of a south-facing porch.[1]

The course of the Herefordshire and Gloucestershire Canal runs just north of the village.

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References

  1. 1.0 1.1 St Bartholomew, Westhide - The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain & Ireland (King's College London)
  2. Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Herefordshire, 1963; 2012 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-12575-7pages 314
  3. "Churchyard Cross, Westhide". Herefordshire Through Time. Herefordshire Council. http://www.herefordshire.gov.uk/htt/smrSearch/Monuments/Monument_Item.aspx?ID=6520. Retrieved 2010-12-12.