Whitney-on-Wye

Whitney-on-Wye
Whitney-on-Wye Location within Herefordshire
Population	117 (2011 Census)
District	Herefordshire
Shire county	Herefordshire
Region	West Midlands
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	HEREFORD
Postcode district	HR3
Police	West Mercia
Fire	Hereford and Worcester
Ambulance	West Midlands
UK Parliament	North Herefordshire
List of places UK England Herefordshire 52°07′16″N 3°04′01″W / 52.121°N 3.067°W / 52.121; -3.067

Whitney-on-Wye is a village and civil parish in Herefordshire, England, roughly a mile east of the border with Wales. The population of this civil parish at the 2011 census was 117.^[1] It is on the A438 road, and on the River Wye. The village is 25 km (16 mi) west of Hereford. The church is dedicated to the Saints Peter and Paul.^[2]

History[]

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), and probably refers to the River Wye which runs through the area and which can become a torrent when heavy rains in the Welsh mountains cause it to swell.

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.^{[3][page needed]}

See also[]

• Whitney-on-Wye toll bridge

References[]

External links[]

Media related to Whitney-on-Wye at Wikimedia Commons

Coordinates: 52°07′16″N 3°04′01″W / 52.121°N 3.067°W / 52.121; -3.067

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