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Atcham
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Atcham is a village, ecclesiastical parish and civil parish in Shropshire, England. It lies on the B4380 (once the A5), 5 miles south-east of Shrewsbury. The River Severn flows round the village. To the south is the village of Cross Houses and to the north-west the hamlet of Emstrey.
Atcham once belonged and gave its name to Atcham Rural District, before the village merged into the Borough of Shrewsbury in 1974 and came under Shrewsbury and Atcham Borough Council. From 2009, Shrewsbury and Atcham joined the other districts of non-metropolitan Shropshire under Shropshire Council. The Parliamentary constituency covering the borough remains as Shrewsbury and Atcham. In population, Atcham is the smallest village to be named in a UK Parliamentary constituency.
The village has the only church in England dedicated to Saint Eata, Bishop of Hexham. The reason for the dedication is unclear, as there is no written record of Eata coming so far south. However, there is a crop photograph from the 1970s of a field in Attingham Park showing the site of a Saxon palace identical to one excavated near Hexham. "Atcham" is a contraction of "Attingham", meaning "the home of Eata's people". The church building dates from the 11th century.
The local airfield RAF Atcham, now returned to agriculture and light industry, was held by an American training unit for much of World War II. It used P-47 Thunderbolts and later P-38 Lightnings for operational training of fighter pilots posted in from the United States. Almost 50 pilots were lost in accidents flying from there.
The A5 London–Holyhead road once crossed the village, but now runs to the north on a dual-carriageway.
In order of birth:
Ordericus Vitalis (1075 – c. 1142), chronicler and Benedictine monk, was baptised in the village.
Sir Rowland Hill of Soulton, convenor of the Geneva Bible translation, possible inspiration for the character Old Sir Rowland in Shakespeare's play As You Like built the first stone bridge over the river here as part of his wider civic projects across London and Shropshire.
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