BASCHURCH PARISH

Introduction

Baschurch is a large village and civil parish in Shropshire, England. It lies in North Shropshire, north-west 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. 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.

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Parish Information

Parish statistics

Area	3,184 hectares
Population	2,854 ⁽²⁰²¹⁾
Density	90 people/km²
Mean age	40.4
Ward	Ruyton and Baschurch
District	Shropshire
Postcodes	SY4
ONS ID	E04011215