Whitchurch Canonicorum (/ˈwɪtʃɜːrtʃ kəˌnɒnɪˈkɔːrəm/) is a village and civil parish in southwest Dorset, England, situated in the Marshwood Vale 5 miles (8.0 km) west-northwest of Bridport.

[1] In the 899 will of King Alfred the Great it was left to his youngest son Æthelweard,[2] and in 1086 in the Domesday Book, the village was recorded as Witcerce.

It is noteworthy as containing the only shrine in Britain to have survived the Reformation with its relics intact, apart from those of Saint Edward the Confessor in Westminster Abbey and St Eanswythe in Folkestone.

The shrine of St Wite in the north wall of the transept is foramina-style, with three large vesica-shaped apertures for pilgrims to insert heads, hands, arms or feet.

After 2019 structural changes to local government in England, Whitchurch Canonicorum is part of the Marshwood Vale ward which elects 1 member to Dorset Council.