WHITCHURCH, a market-town of the county of Salop, in the hundred of North Bradford, 160 miles from London. It is a well-built place, whose greatest ornament is the parish church, erected in 1722. It is a fine building of the Tuscan order, standing on the site of an ancient Gothic structure, having a stately square tower with eight bells, and elaborately finished in the interior. There is also an excellent endowed grammar-school, with houses for the several masters. There is a well-attended market on Friday. The population, which is principally employed in the malt and hop trade, and in making shoes, amounted in 1821 to 5376, and in 1831 to 5736.