This is just one of the two outdoor leisure fields, the other being Whitchurch Playing Fields adjacent to Whitchurch First and Middle School and opposite to Stanburn First and Middle School.

The Scottish office is in Stirling, the Welsh office in Whitchurch, Cardiff and the Northern Ireland office in Belfast.

Close to the border with the neighbouring county of Shropshire, the village is eight miles ( 13 km ) east of Whitchurch and seven miles ( 11 km ) north of Market Drayton.

Nantwich railway station is on the line from Crewe to Whitchurch, Shrewsbury and other towns along the Welsh border.

There is a roundabout with the A519 and B5062 ( for Whitchurch ).

Whitchurch is a market town in Shropshire, England on the Wales-England border.

The town is located in the Whitchurch Urban civil parish, and is twinned with the French town of Neufchâtel-en-Bray.

Whitchurch railway station is on the former London and North Western ( later part of the LMS ) line from Crewe down the English side of the Welsh border ( the Welsh Marches Line ) toward Cardiff.

Whitchurch has its own short arm of the Llangollen Canal but is not a key stopping place for boaters as the arm ends about a mile from the town centre.

Whitchurch is the home of the JB Joyce tower clocks company, established in 1690, the oldest clock tower making company in the world, earning Whitchurch the reputation as the Home of tower clocks.

Roman Górecki, ( 1889-1946 ), a World War II Polish Army general, is buried at Whitchurch cemetery in a war graves plot containing mainly burials from the then Polish military hospital at nearby Iscoyd Park ( within Wales ) where he died.

The section from Tongwynlais to the Melingriffith Tin Plate Works at Whitchurch has been retained in water and was used for fishing, but is now a nature reserve.

Today there is only a local bus service that runs to the nearby towns of Wrexham and Whitchurch.

It is close to Whitchurch, about six and a half miles from Aylesbury.

Whitchurch is a village and also a civil parish within Aylesbury Vale district in Buckinghamshire, England.

Whitchurch is a common place name in England.

Whitchurch includes many fine old buildings, and is considered by many to be quite picturesque.

Whitchurch Combined School is a mixed, community, primary school, which takes children from the age of four through to the age of eleven.

Joyce of Whitchurch built the clock, the face of which is across, the largest bell weighs with all the bells weighing 20 tons ( 18, 150 kg ); the minute hand is long, the hour hand is across, the pendulum is long.

It centres on a crossroads dominated by the Birchgrove Inn which also lies between Heath and Whitchurch.

The body was taken by Thomas Neville, Lord Furnival, to Whitchurch, Shropshire for burial ; however when rumours circulated that Percy was still alive, the King ' had the corpse exhumed and displayed it, propped upright between two millstones, in the market place at Shrewsbury '.

BOAC's flying-boat base for Britain was shifted from Southampton to Poole, Dorset, but many flights used Foynes in Eire, reached by shuttle flight from Whitchurch.

Townshend was elected to the House of Commons in 1754 as Whig member for Whitchurch and held that seat till his elevation to the peerage in 1783.

* 1754: Entered the House of Commons as MP for Whitchurch, for 29 years until 1783

However, Whitchurch was once the junction for the main line of the Cambrian Railways, but the section from Whitchurch to Welshpool ( Buttington Junction ), via Ellesmere, Whittington, Oswestry and Llanymynech, closed on 18 January 1965 in favour of the more viable alternative route via Shrewsbury.

Whitchurch was also junction for the Whitchurch and Tattenhall Railway or Chester to Whitchurch branch line, another part of the London and North Western, and running via Malpas.

Owen Paterson, the current Environment Secretary and Member of Parliament ( MP ) for North Shropshire under the Conservative Party, was born in Whitchurch, within his present parliamentary constituency.

:" In the church are memorials for the family of Whitchurch.

* Whitchurch, an alternative name for Little Stanmore in the historic county of Middlesex.

The 1980s — often dismissed as a low period for northern soul by those who had left the scene in the 1970s — featured almost 100 new venues in places as diverse as Bradford, London, Peterborough, Leighton Buzzard, Whitchurch, Coventry and Leicester.

During World War II, Bristol's Whitchurch Airport was the only civil airport still in operation in the UK, meaning all flights usually bound for London were terminated in Bristol.

The primary school is Whitchurch Church of England Primary School, which holds awards for Investors in People and Eco Schools.

His son, the fourth Viscount, sat as a Member of Parliament for Whitchurch.

In the First World War the community raised funds for a ' Radyr bed ' at the nearby Welsh Metropolitan Military Hospital in Whitchurch and set up a ' Citizen Guard ' from those too old or too young to enlist.

The area is known for the Gabalfa Interchange ( also known as the Gabalfa flyover ) where the A48 Eastern Avenue, A470 North Road, and the A469 Whitchurch Road ( south )/ Caerphilly Road ( north ) meet.

Whitchurch printed for a time in partnership with Grafton, who set up his press in the recently surrendered house of the Grey Friars, and in 1541 they obtained a joint exclusive privilege for printing service books including the Prayer-book ; a little later they were granted a privilege for printing primers in Latin and English.

Whitchurch is well-placed being at the cross roads for north-south, east-west travellers.

Cardiff Bus services 1 / 2 ( City Circle ), 24 / 25 ( Whitchurch ), 33 / 33A ( Radyr / Morganstown ) 60 / 62 / 62A ( Pentrebane / Fairwater ) and Stagecoach service 122 ( Tonypandy ) operate through the area to / from Cardiff central bus station.

However, although Wrexham itself was bypassed, the plan to join the rivers Severn, Mersey and Dee was completed, first by cutting the Wirral Arm from Chester to Ellesmere Port ( Whitby wharf ) then by extending the Llangollen Arm via ellesmere, Whitchurch and Bettisfield Moss through to the Chester Canal at Hurleston.

The act expanded Richmond Hill's borders, annexing parts of Whitchurch Township, Markham Township, Vaughan Township and King Township into Richmond Hill, expanding the area covered from to and the population from a little over 19, 000 to some 34, 000.

Opened in 1840, the section from Whitchurch to Welshpool ( Buttington Junction ), via Ellesmere, Whittington, Oswestry and Llanymynech, closed on 18 January 1965 in favour of the more viable alternative route via Shrewsbury, leaving only a short branch line of the former Great Western Railway from Gobowen to continue to serve Oswestry until 7 November 1966.

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* A 17-mile ( 27-km ) branch would run from near Tetchill to Prees Heath, via Welshampton, Fenns Moss and Whitchurch.

As this left the middle part isolated from the rest of the UK waterways network, the planned Whitchurch branch was re-routed.

However, the section from Whitchurch to Welshpool ( Buttington Junction ), via Ellesmere, Whittington, Oswestry and Llanymynech, closed on 18 January 1965 in favour of the more viable alternative route via Shrewsbury.

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Some flights used Filton Airfield and others Whitchurch, however the majority were from the college's playing fields at Beggars Bush Field, between the college and Leigh Woods, which was turned into an airfield.

It runs north from Ross-on-Wye in Herefordshire via Hereford, Leominster, Ludlow, Shrewsbury and Whitchurch, then continues through central Cheshire to Warrington and Wigan before terminating at its junction with the A6 road just south of Bamber Bridge, near the junction of the M6, M65 and M61 motorways.