Elmbridge, Worcestershire

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Elmbridge
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St Mary's Church
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Elmbridge
Location within Worcestershire
Area7.82 km2 (3.02 sq mi)
Population475 (2011 census) [1]
  Density 61/km2 (160/sq mi)
Civil parish
  • Elmbridge
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Droitwich
Postcode district WR9
UK Parliament
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UK
England
Worcestershire
52°19′N2°09′W / 52.31°N 2.15°W / 52.31; -2.15 Coordinates: 52°19′N2°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.

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Geography

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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Brook which feeds south a few miles into Droitwich Spa, there flowing into the short River Salwarpe, in navigability superseded by the parallel Droitwich Canal, both left-bank tributaries of the Severn.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

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

Its Anglican church dedicated to Saint Mary is largely a Victorian reconstruction of a medieval building. [4]

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References

  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

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