Whitchurch

Whitchurch is a marketplace city in northern Shropshire, England. It lies 3 km east of the Welsh border, 30 km north of the county metropolis of Shrewsbury, 30 km south of Chester, and 24 km east of Wrexham. At the 2011 Census, the population of the town turn out to be 9,781. Whitchurch is the oldest continuously inhabited metropolis in Shropshire. It is twinned with Neufchatel-en-Bray, France. Whitchurch railway station is on the former London and North Western later a part of the LMS line from Crewe down the English aspect of the Welsh border the Welsh Marches Line toward Cardiff. However, Whitchurch modified into as quickly because the junction for the principle line of the Cambrian Railways,

but the section from Whitchurch to Welshpool Buttington Junction, through Ellesmere, Whittington, Oswestry and Llanymynech, closed on 18 January 1965 in favour of the extra feasible alternative direction thru Shrewsbury. Whitchurch turn out to be additionally the junction for the Whitchurch and Tattenhall Railway or Chester to Whitchurch branch line, each other part of the London and North Western, walking thru Malpas. The line closed to ordinary offerings on 16 September 1957, but use by diverted passenger trains endured until eight December 1963.