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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 in Britain to have survived the
Reformation with its
relics intact, apart from that of Saint
Edward the Confessor in
Westminster Abbey. The saint in question is the somewhat obscure Saint Wite (latinised as Saint Candida) after whom the church and the village are named. Some have trued to identify her as the
Breton Saint
Gwen Teirbron. However a local tradition considers her to be a Saxon woman, probably a hermit or anchoress martyred by Danes in the course of a raid in the year 831.
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