Whitney-on-Wye
Whitney-on-Wye Toll Bridge
Whitney-on-Wye is located in Herefordshire
Whitney-on-Wye
Whitney-on-Wye
Location within Herefordshire
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townHEREFORD
Postcode districtHR3
PoliceWest Mercia
FireHereford and Worcester
AmbulanceWest Midlands
UK Parliament

Whitney-on-Wye is a village and civil parish in Herefordshire, England, and approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) east from the border with Wales. The village is on the A438 road, on the River Wye, and 16 mi (25 km) west from Hereford. Parish population in 2011 was 117.

The parish includes the hamlet of Millhalf (grid reference SO2789948154), 1,600 yards (1,500 m) east from Whitney village. West from Whitney village and south from the A438 is the late 18th-century Whitney-on-Wye toll bridge (grid reference SO2589247437), which bridges the Wye and connects the parish to that of Clifford.[1][2]

Railway bridge remains at Millhalf

The remains of the Hereford, Hay and Brecon Railway (built 1862 to 1864), crosses the parish, and through Whitney village and Millhalf.[1][2][3]

The Grade II* listed parish church, dating to the 12th and rebuilt in the mid-18th century, is dedicated to the saints Peter and Paul.[4][5]

Whitney-on-Wye was first mentioned in the Domesday Book with the spelling 'Witenie'. The most plausible meaning for the name is White Water, from the Anglo-Saxon hwit (white) and ey (water).

During the Captain Swing riot movement of 1830, Whitney was a site in Herefordshire for protest by the dispossessed farm labourers who threatened arson and machine breaking to try to obtain a living wage. On 17 November 1830, Henry Williams, a 'ranting' preacher and journeyman tailor wrote a threatening letter to a large farmer citing the fires that had been set in the barns of those who had ignored the poor in the county of Kent. For his pains he was sentenced to transportation to New South Wales.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 Whitney-on-Wye, OpenStreetMap. Retrieved 17 April 2023
  2. 1 2 Millhalf, Grid Reference Finder. Retrieved 17 April 2023
  3. ↑ Hereford, Hay and Brecon Railway at Whitney, Google Street View (September 2011), showing the site of Whitney station (towards left), and railway bridge over Whitney Court Road (right). Retrieved 17 April 2023
  4. ↑ Historic England. "Church of St Peter and St Paul (1349557)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 17 April 2023.
  5. ↑ "St Peter & St Paul, Whitney on Wye", Herefordshire Churches Tourism Group. Retrieved 17 April 2023
  6. ↑ Hobsbawm, Eric; Rudé, George (1968), Captain Swing, Toronto: Norton and Co.

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