Whitchurch, Herefordshire
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Whitchurch (Welsh: Llandywynnog) is a village in Herefordshire named after the church of St. Dubricius which was originally white in colour. Within the village is the Old Court Hotel which was originally the ancestral home of the Gwillam family, and was lived in for a while by John Graves Simcoe first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada from 1791-1796 and founder of Toronto, who married Elizabeth Posthuma Gwillim. The town of Whitchurch-Stouffville in Ontario was named by Graves-Simcoe after the village of his wifes birth.