Alpraham

Alpraham is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Alpraham and Calveley, in the Cheshire East district, in the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. It is on the A51 road between Nantwich and Chester, seven miles north-west of Nantwich. The population is around 400.

The Travellers Rest public house is on the Campaign for Real Ale's National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors. It was built in about 1850 and extended in 1937, and the interwar interior remains largely unchanged.

Demography
The 2001 Census gave the parish's population as 373, rising to 407 in 162 households in the 2011 Census. The population density was 0.6 persons/hectare in 2011, well below the average of 3.2 persons/hectare for Cheshire East.

History
Alpraham was mentioned in the Domesday book as belonging to Edwin, Earl of Mercia in 1066 and belonging to Gilbert de Venables in 1086 when it had 3 villagers and 6 smallholders. It had 4 ploughlands, 1 men's plough team, 2 acres of meadow and 2 leagues of woodland. In 1086 the value of the manor was just 8 shillings whereas in 1066 it had been 1 pound.

Alpraham was formerly a township in the parish of Bunbury, in 1866 became a civil parish, on 1 April 2023 the parish was abolished and merged with Calveley to form "Alpraham and Calveley".