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Alpheton
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Also known as Alpheton, Suffolk

thumb|Alpheton village sign detail Alpheton is a village and civil parish in the Babergh district of Suffolk, England. Located on the A134 road about six miles north of Sudbury, in 2005 it had a population of 260, reducing to 256 at the 2011 Census. According to Eilert Ekwall the meaning of the village name is the homestead of Aelfled.

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Place details

Locality
Babergh
Region
England
Country
United Kingdom
Population
0

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Air quality

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Key facts

UK place.country
England
UK place.official_name
Alpheton
UK place.population
256
UK place.population_ref
(2011)
UK place.shire_district
Babergh
UK place.area_total_km2
4.94
UK place.shire_county
Suffolk
UK place.region
East of England
UK place.constituency_westminster
South Suffolk
UK place.post_town
SUDBURY
UK place.postcode_district
CO10
UK place.postcode_area
CO
UK place.dial_code
01284
UK place.os_grid_reference
TL882507
UK place.static_image_name
Alpheton Church - geograph.org.uk - 198368.jpg
UK place.static_image_caption
Church of St Peter and St Paul, Alpheton
UK place.mapframe
yes

via Wikipedia infobox

Wikidata facts

Instance of
civil parish
Located in
Babergh
Population
256
Shares border with
Stanningfield
Image
Alpheton Church - geograph.org.uk - 198368.jpg
Dialing code
01284
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Commons category
Alpheton
postal code
CO10
OS grid reference
TL882507
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Encyclopedic overview

23 sections
Contents
  • History
  • Background
  • Early records
  • Later history
  • Two World Wars
  • Post-war changes
  • Governance
  • Community facilities
  • Listed buildings
  • Grade I
  • Grade II*
  • Grade II
  • Planning
  • Landscape
  • Economy
  • Transport
  • Education
  • Local Organisations
  • Demography
  • Population change
  • Location grid
  • References
  • External links

thumb|Alpheton village sign detail Alpheton is a village and civil parish in the Babergh district of Suffolk, England. Located on the A134 road about six miles north of Sudbury, in 2005 it had a population of 260, reducing to 256 at the 2011 Census. According to Eilert Ekwall the meaning of the village name is the homestead of Aelfled.

==History== thumb|left|upright=1.35|Houses in Alpheton and a stretch of the old road

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Alpheton” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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