The story
- Old English · derived fromhwit + cirice“white church”
- English todayWhitchurch
From Old English hwit + cirice (“white church”), presumably built from whitish stone.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Whitchurch
Today it means: A village and civil parish in Bath and North East Somerset district, Somerset, and a southern suburb of Bristol, between Hartcliffe, Hengrove and Knowle (OS grid ref ST6167). Full definition →
Old English hwit + cirice