Whitchurch Canonicorum
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Whitchurch Canonicorum or Whitechurch Canonicorum is a village in south-west Dorset, England, situated in the Marshwood Vale five miles northwest of Bridport.
The village has a population of 647 (2001); 10.1% of dwellings are second homes. It is also the burial place of Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov.
The church is noteworthy as containing the only shrine to have survived the Reformation with its relics intact, apart from that of St Edward the Confessor in Westminster Abbey. The saint in question is the very obscure St Wite (possibly the Breton, St Gwen) after whom the church and the village are named.
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