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 placename:
    1. A village in Bath and North East Somerset district, Somerset, and a southern suburb of Bristol, England, between Hartcliffe, Hengrove and Knowle (OS grid ref ST6167).
    2. A village in Buckinghamshire, England, formerly in Aylesbury Vale district (OS grid ref SP8020).
    3. A suburban village in Tavistock parish, West Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX4873).
    4. A civil parish 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, England (OS grid ref SU4648).
    6. A village and civil parish (served by Whitchurch and Ganarew Group Parish Council) in south Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO5417).
    7. 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.
    8. A civil parish (without a council) in Stratford-on-Avon district, Warwickshire, England (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).
  2. (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.

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