Whixall
Whixall is, by land area, the third largest inland village in England and a civil parish in Shropshire, England. It is documented in the Domesday Book as having been in existence in 1086.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Peter Fleming, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 820 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Shropshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Whixall, Shropshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of St Mary and Prees railway station.
Prees railway station
Railway station
Photo: Mike Farmer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Prees railway station serves the village of Prees in Shropshire, England, although the station is a mile to the west of the village and in the parish of Wem Rural. Prees railway station is situated 2½ miles east of Whixall.
St Mary’s Church, Edstaston
Church
Photo: Michael Patterson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Mary's Church is in the village of Edstaston, in the civil parish of Wem Rural, Shropshire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Wem and Whitchurch, the archdeaconry of Salop, and the diocese of Lichfield. St Mary’s Church, Edstaston is situated 2 miles southeast of Whixall.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Welsh End and Hollinwood.
Welsh End
Hamlet
Welsh End is a small rural hamlet in the civil parish of Whixall, Shropshire, England. The hamlet is adjacent to the border with the Welsh county of Clwyd, and is traversed by the Llangollen canal.
Hollinwood
Village
Photo: Mike Peile, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hollinwood is a small village in Shropshire, England. Hollinwood lies to the south of the town of Whitchurch and is about one mile from the border with Wales. Hollinwood is situated 1½ miles northeast of Whixall.
Quina Brook
Hamlet
Photo: Mike Farmer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Quina Brook is a hamlet in north Shropshire, near the border between England and Wales. Population details for the 2011 census are found under Wem Rural. Quina Brook is situated 2 miles southeast of Whixall.
Whixall
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Whixall, Shropshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.9078° or 52° 54′ 28″ northLongitude
-2.74249° or 2° 44′ 33″ westPopulation
820Elevation
341 feet (104 metres)Open location code
9C4VW755+42OpenStreetMap ID
node 335592856OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2633996Wikidata ID
Q2491133
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Whixall” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Whixall”
- Chinese: “Whixall”
- Dutch: “Whixall”
- French: “Whixall”
- Irish: “Whixall”
- Italian: “Whixall”
- Ladin: “Whixall”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Whixall”
- Persian: “ویکسال”
- Polish: “Whixall”
- Swedish: “Whixall”
- Turkish: “Whixall”
- Welsh: “Whixall”
- “Whixall”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Whixall”. Photo: Peter Fleming, CC BY-SA 2.0.