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Baschurch

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Also known as Baschurch, Shropshire

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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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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