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Alphamstone
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Alphamstone is a village and civil parish in Essex, England. It is located south of Sudbury in Suffolk and is northeast from the county town of Chelmsford. The village is in the district of Braintree and in the parliamentary constituency of Braintree. The parish is part of the Stour Valley South parish cluster. The parish is with a geology of fertile clay-soils, and is at an elevation of above sea level. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 225.
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- Locality
- Braintree
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 187
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Key facts
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.official_name
- Alphamstone
- UK place.population
- 225
- UK place.population_ref
- (Parish, 2021)
- UK place.area_total_sq_mi
- 2.67
- UK place.civil_parish
- Alphamstone
- UK place.shire_district
- Braintree
- UK place.shire_county
- Essex
- UK place.region
- East of England
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Braintree
- UK place.post_town
- BURES
- UK place.postcode_district
- CO8
- UK place.postcode_area
- CO
- UK place.dial_code
- 01787
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- TL884358
- UK place.static_image_name
- St. Barnabas - the parish church of Alphamstone - geograph.org.uk - 1269959.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- St Barnabas's Church, Alphamstone
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Alphamstone is a village and civil parish in Essex, England. It is located south of Sudbury in Suffolk and is northeast from the county town of Chelmsford. The village is in the district of Braintree and in the parliamentary constituency of Braintree. The parish is part of the Stour Valley South parish cluster. The parish is with a geology of fertile clay-soils, and is at an elevation of above sea level. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 225.
The village is a mile west of the River Stour, which forms the Essex-Suffolk county-border in the local area. The village has one parish church, the C of E St Barnabas. It was built in the thirteenth century and went through restorations in the 16th and 19th centuries. The churchyard also features seven sarsen stones, potentially once a prehistoric stone circle. In 1831 the population of the village was 244 inhabitants.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Alphamstone” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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