Alphamstone

Alphamstone

St. Barnabas church, Alphamstone
Alphamstone
Alphamstone shown within Essex
Area 2.67 sq mi (6.9 km2)
OS grid reference TL884358
Civil parish
  • Alphamstone
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town BURES
Postcode district CO8
Dialling code 01787
Police Essex
Fire Essex
Ambulance East of England
EU Parliament East of England
UK Parliament

Alphamstone is a village and civil parish in Essex, England. It is located 3 3⁄4 miles (6.0 km) south of Sudbury in Suffolk and is 20 mi (32 km) northeast from the county town of Chelmsford and has an altitude of 216 feet (66 m). The village is in the district of Braintree and in the parliamentary constituency of Saffron Walden. The parish is part of the Stour Valley South parish cluster.[1] The parish is 1,709 acres (2.67 sq mi; 692 ha) with a geolagy of firtile clay-soils.[2] The population is included in the civil parish of Lamarsh.[3]

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 CofE St Barnabas. It was built in the thirteenth century and went through restorations in the 16th and 19th centuries.[4] In 1831 the population of the village was 244 inhabitants.[5]

It is about 1.9 mi (3.1 km) from the nearest railway station at Bures on the Sudbury Branch Line. Its nearest significant road link is the A131.

References

  1. ↑ "Parish cluster map". www.braintree.gov.uk. Archived from the original (JPG) on 2006-10-14. Retrieved 2007-01-22.
  2. ↑ Kelly's Directory of Essex. 1933.
  3. ↑ "Alphamstone Ordinace Survey".
  4. ↑ "St Barnabas, Alphamstone, Essex". The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain & Ireland - Kings College London.
  5. ↑ Samuel Lewis A Topographical Dictionary of England (1831)


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