Boughton Aluph

Boughton Aluph
Boughton Aluph
 Boughton Aluph shown within Kent
Area  9.93 km2 (3.83 sq mi)
Population 2,490 (Civil Parish)[1]
    density  251/km2 (650/sq mi)
OS grid referenceTR035485
Civil parishBoughton Aluph
DistrictAshford
Shire countyKent
RegionSouth East
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post town Ashford
Postcode district TN25
Dialling code 01233
Police Kent
Fire Kent
Ambulance South East Coast
EU Parliament South East England
UK ParliamentAshford
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Coordinates: 51°11′57″N 0°54′50″E / 51.1993°N 0.9138°E / 51.1993; 0.9138

Boughton Aluph (pronounced Bawton Alluf) is a village in the civil parish of Boughton Aluph in the Borough of Ashford in Kent, England, and is about 5 miles (8 km) north of Ashford on the A2251 road. There are two villages within the parish: Boughton Aluph itself, and Boughton Lees.

The civil parish shares its council with the smaller locality of Eastwell.

The place-name 'Boughton Aluph' is first attested as 'Boltune' in the Domesday Book of 1086, as 'Boctune' in the related Domesday Monachorum, and as 'Botun Alou' in the Close Rolls of 1237. 'Boughton' means 'town or settlement where beeches grew'; the village was held by one Alulf in 1211-12, the name being a variant of the Old German 'Adalulf'.[2]

Amenities

There are three places of worship:

Notable residents

References

  1. Key Statistics; Quick Statistics: Population Density United Kingdom Census 2011 Office for National Statistics Retrieved 10 May 2014
  2. Eilert Ekwall, Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names, pp.54-5.

External links

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