Wye Explained

Wye may refer to:

Place names

Australia

• Wye, South Australia, a locality on South Australia's

Limestone Coast

Britain

• Wye, Kent, a village in the parish of Wye with Hinxhill, Kent
  • Wye College, agricultural college, part of University of London before closure in 2009
  • Wye School, a free school
  • Wye railway station, with station code WYE
  • Wye Racecourse, a former horse racing venue
  • RAF Wye, a former aerodrome
• Wye Head, an area near Buxton, Derbyshire and a major rising of the Derbyshire Wye

Canada

• Wye Marsh, a wetland area on the south shores of Georgian Bay in Ontario
• Wye Road, Strathcona County, Alberta

United States

• Wye, Montana, a town in Missoula County, Montana
• Wye Mills, Maryland, an unincorporated community in Talbot County, Maryland
  • Wye Mill, the oldest grist mill in the United States
  • The Wye Oak was the largest white oak tree in the United States
• Wye House, a large Southern frame plantation house in Talbot County, Maryland
• Wye Hall, a historic house in Queen Anne's County, Maryland
• Wye Mountain, a ridge in Perry and Pulaski counties, Arkansas

Other

• Wye, a fictional province in Isaac Asimov's Foundation series

People

Wye as a surname

• Sam Wye, born 2000, New Zealand rugby union player
• Trevor Wye, born 1935, English flautist

Wye as a given name

• Wye Jamison Allanbrook, 1943–2010, American musicologist
• Wye Saltonstall, baptised 1602–after 1640, English translator and poet.

Other uses

• HMS Wye, five ships of the Royal Navy named after the River Wye
• Wye level, an early optical level
• Wye (rail), a term used in North American railroading equivalent to an English railway triangle
• Wye fitting, used in piping and plumbing
• Wye connection, used in three-phase electrical circuits
• Wye interchange, or directional T interchange between two or more roads or highways
• Common name for Escumasia, a Carboniferous fossil animal

See also

• River Wye (disambiguation)
• Wye Bridge (disambiguation)
• Wye station (disambiguation)
• Why (disambiguation)
• Y (disambiguation)