Brampton with Stoven

Human settlement in England

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52°23′13″N 1°34′23″E / 52.387°N 1.573°E / 52.387; 1.573

Brampton with Stoven is a civil parish in the East Suffolk district of the English county of Suffolk. It is located 6 miles (9.7 km) south of the town of Beccles and 4 miles (6.4 km) north-east of Halesworth, with an area of 12 square kilometres (4.6 sq mi).^[1]^[2] The parish was formed in 1987 from the parishes of Brampton and Stoven,^[3] and the two villages are the major population centres in the parish, with Brampton the larger centre with almost all of the parishes services.^[2] It borders the parishes of Sotterley, Uggeshall, Sotherton, Westhall, Ilketshall St Andrew and Shadingfield.^[1]

At the 2011 census the population of the parish was 427, down from a mid-2005 population estimate of 460.^[a]^[1]^[4] A 2016 estimate suggested the population had fallen further to 411.^[2]

The A145 road passes north–south through the parish, linking Beccles to the A12 at Blythburgh to the south. The East Suffolk Line also runs north–south through the parish, with a request stop at Brampton railway station.^[2]

Notes

^ 2011 United Kingdom census population data from the Office for National Statistics used a 'best-fit' method and, as a result, does not necessarily map exactly to parish boundaries.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Village profile: Brampton with Stoven, East Suffolk District Council, October 2019. Retrieved 2020-02-08.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Brampton with Stoven, Healthy Suffolk, 2016. Retrieved 2020-02-08.
^ The Waveney (Parishes) Order 1987 Archived 28 August 2021 at the Wayback Machine, Local Government Boundary Commission for England. Retrieved 2020-01-17.
^ Estimates of Total Population of Areas in Suffolk, Suffolk County Council, 2007-05-01. Retrieved 2009-04-19. (Archived, 2008-12-19.)