Whitchurch

English

Etymology

From Old English hwit + cirice (“white church”), presumably built from whitish stone.

Proper noun

Whitchurch (countable and uncountable, plural Whitchurches)

  1. (uncountable) A number of places in England:
    1. 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). [1]
    2. A village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, formerly in Aylesbury Vale district (OS grid ref SP8020). [2]
    3. A suburban village in Tavistock parish, West Devon district, Devon (OS grid ref SX4873).
    4. A civil parish south and east of the above village, in West Devon district, Devon. [3]
    5. A town and civil parish with a town council in Basingstoke and Deane district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SU4648). [4]
    6. A village and civil parish (served by Whitchurch and Ganarew Group Parish Council) in south Herefordshire (OS grid ref SO5417). [5]
    7. A market town in Whitchurch Urban parish, north Shropshire (OS grid ref SJ5441).
      • 1948 September and October, Canon Roger Lloyd, “The Art and Mystery of the Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 327:
        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 civil parish (without a council) in Stratford-on-Avon district, Warwickshire (OS grid ref SP2247). [6]
  2. A northern suburb of Cardiff, Wales (OS grid ref ST1580).
  3. A small village in Solva community, west Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SM7925).
  4. A former township taken into the town of Whitchurch-Stouffville, Ontario, Canada.
  5. (countable) A habitational surname from Old English.

Derived terms

Statistics

  • According to the 2010 United States Census, Whitchurch is the 33645th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 677 individuals. Whitchurch is most common among White (88.77%) individuals.

References

  1. ^ Parish map (Somerset)
  2. ^ Parish map (Buckinghamshire)
  3. ^ Parish map (Devon)
  4. ^ Parish map (Hampshire)
  5. ^ Parish map (Herefordshire)
  6. ^ Parish map (Warwickshire)
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