Place:Alphamstone, Essex, England

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NameAlphamstone
Alt namesAlfelmestunasource: Domesday Book (1985) p 100
TypeCivil parish
Coordinates51.983°N 0.717°E
Located inEssex, England
See alsoBelchamp Rural, Essex, Englandrural district in which it was located 1894-1934
Halstead Rural, Essex, Englandrural district into which it was absorbed in 1934
Braintree District, Essex, Englanddistrict municipality covering the area since 1974
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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 Saffron Walden. 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. The population is included in the civil parish of Lamarsh.

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. In 1831 the population of the village was 244 inhabitants.

It is about from the nearest railway station at Bures on the Sudbury Branch Line. Its nearest significant road link is the A131.

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