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WHITCHURCH

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 599 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WHITCHURCH , a See also:

market See also:town in the See also:Newport See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Shropshire, See also:England, 171 M. N.W. from See also:London on a See also:joint See also:line of the London & See also:North-Western and See also:Great Western See also:railways, and the See also:terminus of the See also:Cambrian railway. Pop. of See also:urban See also:district (1901) 5221. Malting and See also:cheese-making are the See also:principal See also:industries. The See also:church of St Alkmund, rebuilt in the 18th See also:century, retains the See also:fine See also:tomb of See also:John See also:Talbot, first See also:earl of See also:Shrewsbury, who See also:fell at the See also:battle of See also:Bordeaux (1453). The town See also:hall and other public buildings are See also:modern. The See also:grammar school was founded in 1550, and here (c. 1791) Reginald See also:Heber, See also:Bishop of See also:Calcutta, was educated. The See also:parish of Whitchurch extends into See also:Cheshire. Whitchurch was at first known as Weslun and belonged before the See also:Conquest to See also:King Harold, but was afterwards granted to Earl See also:Roger, of whom See also:William de See also:Warenne was holding it at the See also:time of the Domesday Survey. The name is said to have been altered to Whitchurch or See also:Album Monasterium on See also:account of a See also:stone church built there soon after io86. The See also:manor appears to have been held by a younger See also:branch of the Warenne See also:family, from whom it passed by See also:marriage to the families cf Lestrange and Talbot.

It was sold by the Talbots to See also:

Thomas See also:Egerton, from whom it passed to the earls of See also:Bridgwater and eventually to the See also:present owner, Earl Brownlow. Whitchurch is mentioned as a See also:borough in the 14th century, and was governed by a See also:bailiff, but its privileges, which sprang up with the See also:castle, appear to have disappea red after its decay. The town has never been represented in See also:parliament nor noted for any See also:trade except See also:agriculture. In 1228 John Fitz-Alan received the right of changing the See also:day of the market he held at Whitchurch from See also:Thursday to See also:Monday, and in 1362 a See also:fair lasting three days from the feast of SS. See also:Simon and See also:Jude was granted to John Lestrange. See also:Lord Brownlow granted the market rights to the See also:local authority.

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