Whitchurch

plural Whitchurches

1. A number of places in England:
   1. countableuncountableA 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).
   2. countableuncountableA village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, formerly in Aylesbury Vale district (OS grid ref SP8020).
   3. countableuncountableA suburban village in Tavistock parish, West Devon district, Devon (OS grid ref SX4873).
   4. countableuncountableA civil parish south and east of the above village, in West Devon district, Devon.
   5. countableuncountableA town and civil parish with a town council in Basingstoke and Deane district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SU4648).
   6. countableuncountableA village and civil parish (served by Whitchurch and Ganarew Group Parish Council) in south Herefordshire (OS grid ref SO5417).
   7. countableuncountableA market town in Whitchurch Urban parish, north Shropshire (OS grid ref SJ5441).

      We lived then in Whitchurch, the Shropshire Whitchurch, which unlike all the half dozen other Whitchurches of England, is a place of no little railway interest.

      1948 September and October, Canon Roger Lloyd, “The Art and Mystery of the Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 327

   8. countableuncountableA civil parish (without a council) in Stratford-on-Avon district, Warwickshire (OS grid ref SP2247).
2. countableuncountableA northern suburb of Cardiff, Wales (OS grid ref ST1580).
3. countableuncountableA small village in Solva community, west Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SM7925).
4. countableuncountableA former township taken into the town of Whitchurch-Stouffville, Ontario, Canada.
5. countableA habitational surname from Old English.