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Whitchurch
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- 1 A placename:; A village and civil parish in Bath and North East Somerset district, Somerset, and a southern suburb of Bristol, England, between Hartcliffe, Hengrove and Knowle (OS grid ref ST6167). countable, uncountable
- 2 A placename:; A village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, formerly in Aylesbury Vale district (OS grid ref SP8020). countable, uncountable
- 3 A placename:; A suburban village in Tavistock parish, West Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX4873). countable, uncountable
- 4 A placename:; A civil parish east of the above village, in West Devon district, Devon. countable, uncountable
- 5 A placename:; A town and civil parish with a town council in Basingstoke and Deane district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU4648). countable, uncountable
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- 6 A placename:; A village and civil parish (served by Whitchurch and Ganarew Group Parish Council) in south Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO5417). countable, uncountable
- 7 A placename:; A market town in Whitchurch Urban parish, north Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ5441). countable, uncountable
"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."
- 8 A placename:; A civil parish (without a council) in Stratford-on-Avon district, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP2247). countable, uncountable
- 9 A placename:; A northern suburb of Cardiff, Wales (OS grid ref ST1580). countable, uncountable
- 10 A placename:; A small village in Solva community, west Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SM7925). countable, uncountable
- 11 A placename:; A former township taken into the town of Whitchurch-Stouffville, Ontario, Canada. countable, uncountable
- 12 A habitational surname from Old English. countable
Etymology
From Old English hwit + cirice (“white church”), presumably built from whitish stone.
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