Belchamp St Paul
Belchamp St Paul is a village and civil parish in the Braintree district of Essex, England.
The village is approximately west from Sudbury, Suffolk and north-northeast from the county town of Chelmsford.
The parish is northwest of the adjoining parishes of Belchamp Otten and Belchamp Walter, is in the parliamentary constituency of Braintree, and is part of the Stour Valley North parish cluster. It had a population of 331. The parish includes the hamlet of Knowl Green.
Arthur Golding, the 16th-century poet, grew up at the manor and is buried in the churchyard of St Andrew's; a memorial to him is within the church. General Sir Timothy Creasey KCB OBE, a British Army officer who became General Officer Commanding of the British Army in Northern Ireland, and the commander of the Sultan of Oman's Armed Forces, is buried in the churchyard.
The Half Moon public house was the location for a number of pub scenes in the BBC drama series Lovejoy.
Belchamp St Paul is the scene of the climax of M.R. James' ghost story Count Magnus.
