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Alvechurch occurs as big compact village of Bromsgrove district, in the north-east of the county of Worcestershire, England. A village lies in the vale of the River Arrow. A nigh city is Birmingham.
Architecture
A church is [http://www.alvechurch-stlaurence.org/ St. Laurence's], & go back 1239. A church get on high ground, & was probably a places of an sooner Mercian church, although nothing now remains of the sooner wooden building. There is a 1,348-pipe organ & organist. the tower has a roll of eight bells, rung regularly per Northerly Worcestershire Ringing Association.
There exists likewise the Baptist church in the village.
the village has a total of mediaeval half-half-timber buildings.
Travel and transport
The motorway runs across a n side a village.
Alvechurch has the railway station, serving local trains.
A village is accessible by narrowboat along a rural canal. Alvechurch Marina is on the Birmingham and Worcester Canal.
No official period-paths in the nearby front yard.
Famous people
Alvechurch was a birthplace of the novelist Fay Weldon.
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