Wye may refer to:

Place names

Australia

Wye, South Australia Wye is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on the state's south-east coast adjoining the border with the state of Victoria, Australia, Victoria and overlooking Discovery Bay (Australia), Discovery Bay in the body of wa ...

, a locality on South Australia's Limestone Coast

Britain

Wye, Kent Wye is a village and former Civil parishes in England, civil parish, now in the parish of Wye with Hinxhill, in the Borough of Ashford, Ashford district, in Kent, England, from Ashford, Kent, Ashford and from Canterbury. It is the main settlem ...

, a village in the parish of

Wye with Hinxhill Wye with Hinxhill is a hillside civil parish in the borough of Ashford northeast of Ashford, Kent itself, centred 3.7 miles (6.0 km) NNE of the town centre. The North Downs range of hills has a high escarpment on the east and west borders of t ...

, Kent **

Wye College The College of St Gregory and St Martin at Wye, commonly known as Wye College, was an education and research institution in the village of Wye, Kent. In 1447, Cardinal (Catholic Church), Cardinal John Kempe founded his chantry there which also ...

, agricultural college, part of University of London before closure in 2009 ** Wye School, a free school **

Wye railway station Wye railway station serves Wye in Kent, England, on the Ashford to Ramsgate line. The station and all trains that serve the station are operated by Southeastern. History The first plan for a station near Wye was in 1812, when John Rennie the ...

, 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 Wye is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Missoula County, Montana, United States. It is part of the Missoula metropolitan area. The population was 714 at the 2020 census, up from 511 in 2010. The community is named for t ...

, a town in Missoula County, Montana *

Wye Mills, Maryland Wye Mills is an unincorporated community in Talbot County, Maryland, United States, located at an altitude of . Wye Mills is located at the intersection of Maryland routes 404 and 662, just south of the Queen Anne's County border. Notable lan ...

, an unincorporated community in Talbot County, Maryland ** Wye Mill, the oldest grist mill in the United States **The

Wye Oak The Wye Oak was the largest Quercus alba, white oak tree in the United States and the State Tree of Maryland from 1941 until its demise in 2002. Wye Oak State Park preserves the site where the revered tree stood for more than 400 years in the ...

was the largest white oak tree in the United States * Wye House, a large Southern frame plantation house in Talbot County, Maryland *

Wye Hall Wye Hall is a historic house at 505 Wye Hall Drive in rural southern Queenstown, Queen Anne's County, Maryland. It is located on the north side of the eastern point of Wye Island. It is a handsome Georgian Revival house, built in 1936 to a de ...

, 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 Trevor Wye (born 6 June 1935) is a professional English flautist, flute instructor, and author of books about flute playing.. He was a founder of the British Flute Society and International Summer School for flute, serving as director of the latter ...

, born 1935, English flautist

Wye as a given name

Wye Jamison Allanbrook Wye Jamison "Wendy" Allanbrook (March 15, 1943 – July 15, 2010) was an American musicologist whose writings demonstrated that much of the music of Mozart and his contemporaries was influenced by the social dances of the time. Allanbrook wa ...

, 1943–2010, American musicologist *

Wye Saltonstall Wye Saltonstall (baptised 1602 – after 1640) was an English translator and poet. Life Saltonstall was baptised at St Dunstan-in-the-East in London on 3 October 1602. He was the son of Sir Samuel Saltonstall, and grandson of Sir Richard Saltonst ...

, baptised 1602–after 1640, English translator and poet.

Other uses

* The name of the letter y * , five ships of the Royal Navy named after the River Wye *

Wye level A level is an optical instrument used to establish or verify points in the same horizontal plane in a process known as ''levelling''. It is used in conjunction with a levelling staff to establish the relative height or levels (the vertical sepa ...

, an early optical level *

Wye (rail) In railroad structures and rail terminology, a wye (like the'' 'Y' ''glyph) or triangular junction (often shortened to just triangle) is a triangular joining arrangement of three Track (rail transport), rail lines with a railroad switch (set of ...

, a term used in North American railroading equivalent to an English railway triangle *

Wye fitting A fitting or adapter is used in pipe systems to connect sections of pipe (fluid conveyance), pipe (designated by Nominal Pipe Size, nominal size, with greater Engineering tolerance, tolerances of variance) or tube (fluid conveyance), tube (de ...

, used in piping and plumbing * Wye connection, used in three-phase electrical circuits * Wye interchange, or

directional T interchange In the field of road transport, an interchange (American English) or a grade-separated junction (British English) is a road junction that uses grade separations to allow for the movement of traffic between two or more roadways or highways, using ...

between two or more roads or highways * Common name for ''

Escumasia ''Escumasia roryi'' is a species of enigmatic animal from the Mazon Creek site. Due to the large quantity of fossils, it has acquired a common name, that being "wye" or "y-animal" in reference to its shape. Description ''Escumasia'' ranges f ...

'', a Carboniferous fossil animal