Template:Wp-Aldham, Essex

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Aldham is a village and civil parish in Essex, England. It is located west of Colchester. The village is in the borough of Colchester and in the parliamentary constituency of Harwich and North Essex. The village has its own parish council.

The ancient parish covered but local-government boundary changes reduced this to by the mid-twentieth century. The village borders Fordstreet, Marks Tey and the River Colne to the north. The parish is geographically on an incline, with the land sloping from around in the northwest down to around near the Roman River, where it is susceptible to flooding.^[1]

The 2001 census gave the parish population as 513, decreasing to 491 at the 2011 census. It is from the A12 road, a major trunk road.