High Wych is a village and civil parish in the East Hertfordshire district of Hertfordshire, England. The village is located a little over one mile south-west of the town of Sawbridgeworth, and around three miles north-east of Harlow in the neighbouring county of Essex.

High Wych
St James Church, High Wych
High Wych Location within Hertfordshire
Population	443 [1] 775 (2011 Census including Spellbrook)[2]
OS grid reference	TL463143
Civil parish	High Wych
District	East Hertfordshire
Shire county	Hertfordshire
Region	East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	SAWBRIDGEWORTH
Postcode district	CM21
Dialling code	01279
Police	Hertfordshire
Fire	Hertfordshire
Ambulance	East of England
UK Parliament	Hertford and Stortford
List of places UK England Hertfordshire 51.808863°N 0.120776°E / 51.808863; 0.120776

The parish includes the settlements of Great Pennys, Trimms Green, Sacombs Ash, Allens Green, Chandlers, Carters, Rook End, Hoskins and Sayes Park.[3] The village contains a Church of England primary school[4] and a late 19th-century church, St James, with a marble reredos[3] and a Father Willis organ.[5] A moated site is all that remains of the medieval residence of Mathams.[3] There is also a Georgian historical house called the Manor of Groves which is now a hotel.

High Wych was historically part of the parish of Sawbridgeworth. It became a separate ecclesiastical parish in 1862.[6] High Wych remained part of the civil parish of Sawbridgeworth until 1 April 1901 when it became a separate civil parish.[7]

See also

• The Hundred Parishes

References

External links

Media related to High Wych at Wikimedia Commons

• Landscape character assessment