Arlesey
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Arlesey ( ) is a town and civil parish in the Central Bedfordshire district of Bedfordshire, England. It is near the border with Hertfordshire, about north-west of Letchworth Garden City, north of Hitchin and south of Biggleswade. Arlesey railway station provides services to London, Stevenage and Peterborough. The Domesday Book of 1086 mentions Arlesey. The town's name means the 'island of a man named Aelfric'.
Key facts
- UK place.static_image_name
- Arlesey Church End.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Church End, Arlesey
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.official_name
- Arlesey
- UK place.population
- 6,022
- UK place.population_ref
- (Parish, 2021)
- UK place.unitary_england
- Central Bedfordshire
- UK place.lieutenancy_england
- Bedfordshire
- UK place.region
- East of England
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Hitchin
- UK place.post_town
- ARLESEY
- UK place.postcode_district
- SG15
- UK place.postcode_area
- SG
- UK place.dial_code
- 01462
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- TL190357
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- civil parish
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Central Bedfordshire
- Population
- 5584
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Official website
- www.arleseytc.co.uk
- Image
- Arleseybuilding.jpg
- Dialing code
- 01462
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- Arlesey
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- Arlesey
- OS grid reference
- TL190357
- postal code
- SG15
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Encyclopedic overview
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Arlesey ( ) is a town and civil parish in the Central Bedfordshire district of Bedfordshire, England. It is near the border with Hertfordshire, about north-west of Letchworth Garden City, north of Hitchin and south of Biggleswade. Arlesey railway station provides services to London, Stevenage and Peterborough. The Domesday Book of 1086 mentions Arlesey. The town's name means the 'island of a man named Aelfric'.
==History== The name Arlesey derives from the Old English Aelfricsēg meaning 'Aelfric's island'.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Arlesey” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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