Definition of "Whitchurch"

(uncountable) A placename:

1. 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).  examples

2. A village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, formerly in Aylesbury Vale district (OS grid ref SP8020).  examples

3. A suburban village in Tavistock parish, West Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX4873).  examples

4. A civil parish east of the above village, in West Devon district, Devon.  examples

5. A town and civil parish with a town council in Basingstoke and Deane district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU4648).  examples

6. A village and civil parish (served by Whitchurch and Ganarew Group Parish Council) in south Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO5417).  examples

7. A market town in Whitchurch Urban parish, north Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ5441).  quotations  examples

   Quotations

   • 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, England (OS grid ref SP2247).  examples

9. A northern suburb of Cardiff, Wales (OS grid ref ST1580).  examples

10. A small village in Solva community, west Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SM7925).  examples

(countable) A habitational surname from Old English.  examples