Belchamp Walter
| Belchamp Walter | |
| Essex | |
|---|---|
 St Mary the Virgin, Belchamp Walter | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TL819405 |
| Location: | 52°2’1"N, 0°39’1"E |
| Data | |
| Population: | 328 (2011[1]) |
| Post town: | Sudbury |
| Postcode: | CO10 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Braintree |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Saffron Walden |
Belchamp Walter is a village and parish in the hundred of Hinckford, Essex. It is located approximately three miles west of Sudbury, Suffolk and 22 miles north-north-east from the county town of Chelmsford. It is near Belchamp St Paul and Belchamp Otten.
It has a population of 198 (2011 census).[1]
History
In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Belchamp Walter like this:
BELCHAMP-WALTER, a parish in the district of Sudbury and county of Essex; on a small affluent of the river Stour, 4 miles W of Sudbury r. station. It has a post office under Sudbury. Acres, 2,125. Real property, £4,319. Pop., 708. Houses, 152. Belchamp Hall is the seat of the Raymonds; and contains an interesting collection of pictures. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of Burmer, in the diocese of Rochester. The church is a neat high edifice; and contains a brass of 1591, and tombs of the Raymonds.
References
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Belchamp Walter) |
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11120572&c=Belchamp+Walter&d=16&e=62&g=6423020&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&o=362&m=0&r=1&s=1472650327866&enc=1. Retrieved 31 August 2016.
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