Whitchurch
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old English hwit + cirice (“white church”), presumably built from whitish stone.
Proper noun
[edit]Whitchurch (countable and uncountable, plural Whitchurches)
- (uncountable) 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). [1]
- A village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, formerly in Aylesbury Vale district (OS grid ref SP8020). [2]
- A suburban village in Tavistock parish, West Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX4873).
- A civil parish east of the above village, in West Devon district, Devon. [3]
- A town and civil parish with a town council in Basingstoke and Deane district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU4648). [4]
- A village and civil parish (served by Whitchurch and Ganarew Group Parish Council) in south Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO5417). [5]
- A market town in Whitchurch Urban parish, north Shropshire, England (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.
- A civil parish (without a council) in Stratford-on-Avon district, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP2247). [6]
- A northern suburb of Cardiff, Wales (OS grid ref ST1580).
- A small village in Solva community, west Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SM7925).
- A former township taken into the town of Whitchurch-Stouffville, Ontario, Canada.
- (countable) A habitational surname from Old English.
Derived terms
[edit]Statistics
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Whitchurch”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
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