Boughton Aluph

Human settlement in England
  • Boughton Aluph
District
  • Ashford
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  • Kent
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  • South East
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51°11′50″N 0°54′36″E / 51.19722°N 0.91000°E / 51.19722; 0.91000

Boughton Aluph (pronounced Bawton Alluf) is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Ashford in Kent, England, and is about 5 miles (8 km) north of Ashford on the A251 road. There are two villages within the parish: Boughton Aluph itself, and Boughton Lees. Boughton Corner is a small hamlet within the parish, further east on the A28 road.

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

Media related to Boughton Aluph at Wikimedia Commons

  • Notes on the parish
  • All Saints' church
  • Neighbourhood Plan for the Parish of Boughton Aluph and Eastwell
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Towns and villages in the Borough of Ashford, Kent, England