Alvaston
Alvaston is a village and ward of Derby, in the ceremonial county of Derbyshire, England. Alvaston is on the A6 three miles south-east of Derby city centre and probably owes its name to an individual called Ælfwald.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Derek Wosik, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Suburb with 16,300 residents
- Description: village in Derby, UK
- Also known as: “Alvaston, Derby” and “Alvaston, Derbyshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Boulton St Mary’s Church and LMS School of Transport.
Boulton St Mary’s Church
Church
Photo: Markz55, Public domain.
Boulton St Mary's is the Church of England parish church for the Boulton ward of Derby. It is located on Boulton Lane, Alvaston, Derby, Derbyshire, England.
LMS School of Transport
Convention center
Photo: David Lally, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The LMS School of Transport was built between 1937 and 1938 by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway in Derby, Derbyshire and is now a Grade II listed building used as the Derby Conference Centre.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Boulton and Allenton.
Boulton
Suburb
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Boulton is a suburb and former local government ward of the city of Derby, in the ceremonial county of Derbyshire, England, and is located about four miles to the south-east of Derby city centre.
Allenton
Suburb
Photo: Chris J Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Allenton is a small suburb of the city of Derby, England, situated about three miles south of the city centre. It is located between the suburbs of Osmaston, Boulton, Alvaston and Shelton Lock, and is within the Alvaston South ward.
Wilmorton
Suburb
Wilmorton is a suburb of the city of Derby, England. It is situated between Alvaston and Osmaston, to the south of the city centre on the A6 from Deadman's Lane to the Canal Bridge; the former is aligned to the old town boundary and named from the medieval track that lead to the plague pit dug 1348 during the Great Plague or Black Death.
Alvaston
- Categories: village, civil parish, and locality
- Location: Derby, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
52.89738° or 52° 53′ 51″ northLongitude
-1.42757° or 1° 25′ 39″ westPopulation
16,300Elevation
151 feet (46 metres)Open location code
9C4WVHWC+XXOpenStreetMap ID
node 322486296OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
8378603Wikidata ID
Q4737923
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Swedish—“Alvaston” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ألفاستون”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الفاستين”
- French: “Alvaston”
- Irish: “Alvaston”
- Japanese: “アルバストン”
- Ladin: “Alvaston”
- Polish: “Alvaston”
- Swedish: “Alvaston”
- “Alvaston”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Alvaston”. Photo: Derek Wosik, CC BY-SA 2.0.