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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'.
History of Boughton Aluph. Boughton Aluph comes from the Old English ‘boc’ meaning ‘beech-tree’ and ‘tun’ as an ‘enclosure, a farmstead’; therefore, ‘farmstead where the beech-tree grows’.
3 days ago · Of the earl of Bologne this manor was held by a family who assumed their name from it. Alulphus de Boughton held it in the reign of king John, as appears by the Testa de Nevil, of the honor of Bologne.
Boughton Aluph lies on the Roman road from the Weald of Kent to Canterbury. Roman remains have been found at Kempes Corner on the A28 Canterbury Road. In Saxon times the village was held by...
In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Boughton Aluph like this: BOUGHTON-ALUPH, a parish in East Ashford district, Kent; adjacent to the river Stour and the Canterbury railway, 1½ mile WNW of Wye station, and 4 NNE of Ashford.
Sep 2, 2024 · Guide to Boughton Aluph, Kent ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
Historical Description. Boughton-Aluph, a parish in Kent, adjacent to the river Stour, 14 mile WNW of Wye station on the S.E.R., and 4 miles NNE of Ashford. It contains Boughton-Lees, which has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Ashford. Acreage, 2425 : population, 571.
