Belchamp Walter

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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.

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