Whitchurch

Proper noun

Whitchurch (countable and uncountable, plural Whitchurches)

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).
2. A village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, formerly in Aylesbury Vale district (OS grid ref SP8020).
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.
5. A town and civil parish with a town council in Basingstoke and Deane district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SU4648).
6. A village and civil parish (served by Whitchurch and Ganarew Group Parish Council) in south Herefordshire (OS grid ref SO5417).
7. A 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. A civil parish (without a council) in Stratford-on-Avon district, Warwickshire (OS grid ref SP2247).
9. A northern suburb of Cardiff, Wales (OS grid ref ST1580).
10. A small village in Solva community, west Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SM7925).
11. A former township taken into the town of Whitchurch-Stouffville, Ontario, Canada.
12. (countable) A habitational surname from Old English.