Boughton Aluph


Boughton Aluph is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Ashford in Kent, England, and is about 5 miles north of Ashford on the A251 road. There are two villages within the parish: Boughton Aluph itself, and Boughton Lees.
The civil parish shares its council with the smaller locality of Eastwell.
The place-name 'Boughton Aluph' is first attested as 'Boltune' in the Domesday Book of 1086, as 'Boctune' in the related Domesday Monachorum, and as 'Botun Alou' in the Close Rolls of 1237. 'Boughton' means 'town or settlement where beeches grew'; the village was held by one Alulf in 1211-12, the name being a variant of the Old German 'Adalulf'.

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There are three places of worship: