Baschurch

Baschurch Welsh: Eglwyssau Bassa
Baschurch parish church
Baschurch
Baschurch shown within Shropshire
Population	2,503 (2011)
OS grid reference	SJ4259321413
Civil parish	Baschurch
District	Shropshire
Shire county	Shropshire
Region	West Midlands
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	North Shropshire
List of places UK England 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. Population: 2,503 (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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