Elmbridge, Worcestershire

Coordinates: 52°19′N 2°09′W / 52.31°N 2.15°W / 52.31; -2.15
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Elmbridge
St Mary's Church
Elmbridge is located in Worcestershire
Elmbridge
Elmbridge
Location within Worcestershire
Area7.82 km2 (3.02 sq mi)
Population475 (2011 census)[1]
• Density61/km2 (160/sq mi)
Civil parish
  • Elmbridge
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townDroitwich
Postcode districtWR9
UK Parliament
List of places
UK
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Worcestershire
52°19′N 2°09′W / 52.31°N 2.15°W / 52.31; -2.15

Elmbridge is a small community, mainly clustered in a village and forms a civil parish in Worcestershire, England.

Geography[edit]

The New Inn

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Brook which feeds south a few miles into Droitwich Spa, there flowing into the short River Salwarpe, in navigability superseded by the parallel Droitwich Canal, both left-bank tributaries of the Severn.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 namely an Indian restaurant & bar, Oak Tree Bar and most of Forest Drive, all forming a 20th-century first-developed area of homes, mainly with gardens. Ambridge, the fictional village in the fictional county of Borsetshire, in The Midlands, may possibly have been based on Cutnall Green.[3]

Beside the church is a public green and in private land set behind buildings, opposite, is a pond.

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]

  1. ^ Nomis Web - UK Government - KS101EW - Usual resident population (2011 census) Retrieved 2019-05-04.
  2. ^ Ecclesiastical parish map
  3. ^ Wynne-Jones, Jonathan; Howie, Michael (17 April 2011). "Have they found the real Ambridge?". www.telegraph.co.uk. Telegraph Newspapers. Retrieved 30 September 2017.
  4. ^ Elmbridge, St Mary - a church near you

External links[edit]

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