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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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Whitchurch, market town and township with ry sta., Shropshire, and par., partly also in Cheshire, 11 miles NE. of Ellesmere and 20 N. of Shrewsbury - par., 15,743 ac., pop. 6395; township, 14,870 ac., pop. 6279; town (Whitchurch and Dodington), 504 ac., pop. 3756; P.O., T.O., 3 Banks, 1 newspaper. Market-day, Friday. Whitchurch is an ancient place, formerly called Blancminster, and has a town hall, a handsome parish church, and an endowed grammar school. There is trade in hops.
(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))
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| Feature Description: | "market town and township" (ADL Feature Type: "cities") |
| Administrative units: | Shropshire AncC |
| Place names: | BLANCMINSTER | WHITCHURCH |
| Place: | Whitchurch |
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