Whitchurch Rural is a
civil parish in
Shropshire, England.
It covers the area (that is in Shropshire) to the south and southeast of the town of
Whitchurch, including the villages of
Prees Heath
Prees () is a village and civil parish in north Shropshire, near the border between England and Wales. Its name is Celtic and means "brushwood".
Prees civil parish
The civil parish includes many other villages and hamlets as well as the namesake ...
, Tilstock and
Broughall.
The civil parish population at the
2011 census was 1,533.
It was created in 1894 under the
Local Government Act 1894 from that part of the parish of Whitchurch which was part of the Whitchurch
urban district
Urban district may refer to:
* District
* Urban area
* Quarter (urban subdivision)
* Neighbourhood
Specific subdivisions in some countries:
* Urban districts of Denmark
* Urban districts of Germany
* Urban district (Great Britain and Ireland) (hist ...
. It formed part of the
Whitchurch Rural District from 1894 to 1934, when it became part of the
Wem Rural District
Wem may refer to:
* HMS ''Wem'' (1919), a minesweeper of the Royal Navy during World War I
* Weem, a village in Perthshire, Scotland
*Wem, a small town in Shropshire, England
* Wem (musician), hip hop musician
WEM may stand for:
* County Westmeath ...
. It then became part of
North Shropshire Rural District
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North Shropshire was a rural district in Shropshire, England from 1967 to 1974.
It was formed in 1967 by a merger of most of the Ellesmere Rural District, Wem Rural District, along wi ...
in 1967.
References
Civil parishes in Shropshire
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