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Baschurch, Shropshire

Baschurch
Baschurch Church front.jpg
Baschurch parish church
Baschurch is located in Shropshire
Baschurch
Baschurch
Baschurch shown within Shropshire
Population 2,503 (2011)
OS grid reference SJ4259321413
Civil parish
  • Baschurch
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Shrewsbury
Postcode district SY4
Dialling code 01939
Police West Mercia
Fire Shropshire
Ambulance West Midlands
EU Parliament West Midlands
UK Parliament
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Shropshire
52°47′28″N 2°51′14″W / 52.791°N 2.854°W / 52.791; -2.854Coordinates: 52°47′28″N 2°51′14″W / 52.791°N 2.854°W / 52.791; -2.854

Baschurch (Welsh: Eglwyssau Bassa) is a large village and civil parish in Shropshire, England. grid reference SJ425220

It lies in North Shropshire, north of Shrewsbury. The village has a population of 2,503 as of the 2011 census. The village has strong links to Shrewsbury to the south-east, Oswestry to the north-west, and Wem to the north-east. Baschurch is twinned with the town of Giat in the French département of Puy-de-Dôme, in the Auvergne région. There is a large village not far west of Baschurch called Ruyton-XI-Towns.

The earliest references to Baschurch are under its Welsh name Eglwyssau Bassa (Churches of Bassa), in a seven-stanza englyn-poem of the same name found in the Welsh cycle of poems called Canu Heledd, generally thought to date to the ninth century:

Eglwysseu bassa y orffowys heno.
y diwed ymgynnwys.
cledyr kat callon argoetwis.

Eglwysseu bassa ynt ffaeth heno.
vyn tauawt ae gwnaeth.
rud ynt wy rwy vy hiraeth.

Eglwysseu bassa ynt yng heno.
y etiued kyndrwyn[yn]
tir mablan kyndylan wynn.

Eglwysseu bassa ynt tirion heno.
ys gwaedlyt eu meillyon.
rud ynt wy. rwy vyng callon.

Eglwysseu bassa collassant eu breint.
gwedy y diua o loegyrwys.
kyndylan ac eluan powys.

Eglwysseu bassa ynt diua heno.
y chetwyr ny phara.
gwyr a wyr a mi yma.

Eglwysseu bassa ynt varuar heno.
a minneu wyf dyar.
rud ynt wy rwy vyg galar.


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