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Baschurch
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Baschurch is a village and civil parish in Shropshire, England. It lies in the north of Shropshire. The village had a population of 2,854 as of the 2021 census. Shrewsbury is to the south-east, Oswestry is to the north-west, and Wem is to the north-east of Baschurch. The village is also close to Ruyton-XI-Towns.
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Place details
- Locality
- Walford
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 1,595
- Timezone
- Europe/London
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Key facts
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.official_name
- Baschurch
- UK place.population
- 2,854
- UK place.population_ref
- (2021)
- UK place.civil_parish
- Baschurch
- UK place.unitary_england
- Shropshire
- UK place.lieutenancy_england
- Shropshire
- UK place.region
- West Midlands
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- North Shropshire
- UK place.post_town
- Shrewsbury
- UK place.postcode_district
- SY4
- UK place.postcode_area
- SY
- UK place.dial_code
- 01939
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SJ4259321413
- UK place.static_image_name
- Baschurch Church front.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Baschurch parish church
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- History
- Churches
- Twin town
- Education
- Amenities
- Railways
- Notable people
- Sports
- Broadband internet
- See also
- References
- External links
Baschurch is a village and civil parish in Shropshire, England. It lies in the north of Shropshire. The village had a population of 2,854 as of the 2021 census. Shrewsbury is to the south-east, Oswestry is to the north-west, and Wem is to the north-east of Baschurch. The village is also close to Ruyton-XI-Towns.
==History== The earliest references to Baschurch are under its Welsh name Eglwyssau Bassa (Churches of Bassa), in a seven-stanza englyn-poem of the same name found in the Welsh cycle of poems called Canu Heledd, generally thought to date to the ninth century:
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Baschurch” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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