Talk:Whitchurch, Shropshire

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This is a good start for Whitchurch but needs a lot more information for our interesting town. Please do not put commercial adverts or links to commercial sites on our site--Lionmeadow 22:15, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Whitchurch also refers to Whit Sunday which is Pentecost Sunday and may be the earlier meaning than a subsequent specific church meeting place color, though I do not doubt the latter is also the case. Many calendars refer to Whit Sunday or Whit Church for Pentecost even today. Pentecost of course being the beginning of the church in Acts 2 of the New Testament. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.142.55.134 (talk) 13:36, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
 * I am pretty sure the colour of the stone in which the church was built was a more likely derivation of the town's name than Whit Sunday - weren't all churches celebrating the latter?Cloptonson (talk) 20:17, 24 September 2021 (UTC)

I'm new to Wikipedia but I will edit some stuff for my hometown. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Whitchurch (talk • contribs) 13:38, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

it says the whitchurch is the oldest continually settled town in shropshire, this is untrue, oswestry has been permantly settled from prehistory!

Someone who actually knows the town needs to do some editing for clarity. I doubt very much that a famous composer was born in a pub, and I especially doubt that he was particularly born there (as if head and shoulders appeared somewhere up the street). ;)

Maine Druid (talk) 23:05, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Notable People
In February I added mention of Polish general Roman Gorecki (buried here). He has Polish language wikipedia article but have been unable to successfully link the name to it (leaving it appearing in red as if no page yet exists). Can anyone (perhaps Polish) help?Cloptonson (talk) 21:23, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

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Education points
Cloptonson (talk) 10:42, 8 July 2021 (UTC)
 * The Education section would read better if it could be mentioned what school Whitchurch Grammar joined with that became the present Sir John Talbot's School.
 * I have raised a citation need against mention of its merger. It is not mentioned in the wiki article on Sir John Talbot's School.
 * There is a discrepancy about the year it closed - this section says 1936 but under Notable people (in the description of priest Sir John Talbot) it states 1938.