Elmbridge, Worcestershire
Elmbridge | |
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![]() St Mary's Church | |
Location within Worcestershire | |
Area | 7.82 km2 (3.02 sq mi) |
Population | 475 (2011 census)[1] |
• Density | 61/km2 (160/sq mi) |
Civil parish |
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District | |
Shire county | |
Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | Droitwich |
Postcode district | WR9 |
UK Parliament | |
Elmbridge is a small community, mainly clustered in a village and forms a civil parish in Worcestershire, England.
Geography
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It occupies the top of the gentle, mainly green, vale of the Elmbridge Brook which feeds south a few miles into Droitwich Spa, there flowing into the short River Salwarpe, in navigability superseded by the parallel Droitwich Canal, both left-bank tributaries of the Severn.
The ecclesiastical parish has essentially the same boundaries.[2] A long, north–south, strip parish, it broadens in the southwest to take in the minor neighbourhood of Broad Common which straddles the streets Kidderminster Road and The Knoll and a little of adjacent Broad Alley. Near Broad Common it takes in about half of the linear neighbourhood, Cutnall Green, along the Kidderminster Road and most of Forest Drive, all forming a 20th-century first-developed area of homes, mainly with gardens. Beside the church is a public green and in private land set behind buildings, opposite, is a pond.
Ambridge, the fictional village in the fictional county of Borsetshire, in The Midlands, may possibly have been based on Cutnall Green.[3]
Demography
[edit]As at the census date of Sunday 27 March 2011, four weeks before Easter, ten of its 475 residents (or their parents) stated they were pupils or students living at their non-term-time address.
Amenities
[edit]Its Anglican church dedicated to Saint Mary is largely a Victorian reconstruction of a medieval building.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Nomis Web - UK Government - KS101EW - Usual resident population (2011 census) Retrieved 2019-05-04.
- ^ Ecclesiastical parish map
- ^ Wynne-Jones, Jonathan; Howie, Michael (17 April 2011). "Have they found the real Ambridge?". www.telegraph.co.uk. Telegraph Newspapers. Retrieved 30 September 2017.
- ^ Elmbridge, St Mary - a church near you
External links
[edit] Media related to Elmbridge, Worcestershire at Wikimedia Commons