West Hyde

Shire countyRegionCountryEnglandSovereign stateUnited KingdomPost townRICKMANSWORTHPostcode districtWD3 9Dialling code01895PoliceHertfordshireFireHertfordshireAmbulanceEast of England UK Parliament 51°36′37″N 0°30′42″W / 51.6103°N 0.5118°W / 51.6103; -0.5118

West Hyde is a village situated alongside the A412 road, in the Three Rivers District in south-west Hertfordshire, England. At the 2011 the population of the village was included in the Three Rivers ward of Maple Cross and Mill End.

Notable buildings

• Jolly Gardeners - Believed to have been built in 1820, Ye Jolly Gardeners was the local public house for the village of West Hyde until 1956 and then converted into a house.^[1]
• The Oaks - Originally named The Royal Oak, and then The Fisherman's Tackle (from 1990^[2]), The Oaks (from 2013^[3]) is the village's current public house.
• St Thomas - The church of St Thomas of Canterbury was built in 1845. It was built in the Norman style and designed by Thomas Smith, Architect of Hertford; a copy of his earlier Holy Trinity Church at Wareside, completed in 1841. Pulhamite artificial stonework mouldings were used throughout. The building was faced with extremely high quality knapped flintwork, at a cost of £2,200.^[4]

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  St. Thomas Church, West Hyde, Hertfordshire
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  Stonework and knapped flintwork on St. Thomas
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  Wall flints

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