Whitchurch, Shropshire

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Whitchurch is a town in Whitchurch , Shropshire

Other current and historical names

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Whitchurch within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Whitchurch in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Whitchurch, market town and township with ry sta., Shropshire, and par., partly also in Cheshire, 11 miles NE. of Ellesmere and 20 N. of Shrewsbury - par., 15,743 ac., pop. 6395; township, 14,870 ac., pop. 6279; town (Whitchurch and Dodington), 504 ac., pop. 3756; P.O., T.O., 3 Banks, 1 newspaper. Market-day, Friday. Whitchurch is an ancient place, formerly called Blancminster, and has a town hall, a handsome parish church, and an endowed grammar school. There is trade in hops.

Whitchurch in the Domesday Book

A village in Hodnet hundred, in the county of Cheshire.

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