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Bradwell is an ancient village and modern district in
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, England. It has also given its name to a modern civil parish that is part of the
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. The village was adjacent to Bradwell Abbey, a
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, founded in 1155 and dissolved in about 1540, but the abbey and its immediate environs were always a separate
ecclesiastical parish A parish is a territorial entity in many Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest, often termed a parish priest, who might be assisted by one or m ...
. The village name is an
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word and means ''broad spring''. In the Domesday Book of 1086 the village was recorded as ''Bradewelle''. There was an YHA
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in the village (near the church and Bradwell Bury), at : the YHA closed it during the COVID-19 pandemic and terminated its lease in 2021.


Civil Parish

The parish of Bradwell consists of the Bradwell village grid square, along with Bradwell Abbey, Heelands, Rooksley, and Bradwell Common. The parish had a population of 9,657 according to the 2011 census. The parish is bounded by the railway line or the A5 to the west, Monks Way to the north, Portway to the east, and Dansteed Way to the south. St. Lawrence's Church is a Grade II*-listed building, dating from the 13th century, and receiving its first vicar in 1223. It is believed to contain the oldest
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bells still in use, which were cast in 1297 by Michael de Wymbish of London. Adjoining the sports field is the Bradwell Conservation Area, which is centered on St Lawrence's Field and is administered by the parish council as a nature conservation area. On Vicarage Road is the Bradwell Memorial Hall, built as the village's war memorial after World War I. On Primrose Road is King George's Field in memorial to King George V with a children's play area.


History and heritage


Bradwell Village

Bradwell Bury beside the parish church is a moated site and the remains of an associated manor house which once formed part of a more extensive monument: it is Scheduled Monument. The nearby Bradwell Castle mound is also a Scheduled Monument. Bradwell House and the Church of St James are Grade II* listed; there are a further 25 buildings and structures listed as Grade II.


Bradwell Abbey

Bradwell Abbey is a Scheduled Monument, urban studies site (and a modern district). The site was once the location of a Benedictine priory, founded in 1155. The only remaining ecclesiastic building, the Chapel of St Mary, is a Grade I listed building. There are a further five Grade II listed buildings or structures on the Abbey grounds.


Bradwell railway station

Bradwell railway station Bradwell railway station was a railway station on the Wolverton–Newport Pagnell line. It served both Bradwell and the new village of New Bradwell in Buckinghamshire. The station, which consisted of a brick-built station building, and single p ...
, which was on the Wolverton–Newport Pagnell branch line, served Bradwell fron 1867 to 1964. In the present day, the former railway line (now a
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that is part of the redway network) forms the boundary between Bradville (in Stantonbury CP) and
New Bradwell New Bradwell is (mainly) an Edwardian era village, modern district and civil parish in north-west Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. Together with Wolverton (on the other side of the West Coast Main Line), it was built primarily to house ...
CP; the station platform is on the New Bradwell side.


Sport and Leisure

Bradwell has a Non-League football team Old Bradwell United F.C. who play at Abbey Road, where there is a large sports field with a cricket pitch and several football pitches. The Old Bradwell Tennis Club is also affiliated to the Bradwell Sports and Social Club which has the use of these facilities. Bradwell Bowls Club enters competitive teams in the local league.Bradwell Bowls Club
/ref> Rooksley, at the western edge of the parish, has an important
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track (not in Bradwell parish).


Demography

The demography of Bradwell electoral ward is given at .


See also

*
New Bradwell New Bradwell is (mainly) an Edwardian era village, modern district and civil parish in north-west Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. Together with Wolverton (on the other side of the West Coast Main Line), it was built primarily to house ...
* Bradville


References


External links


Bradwell Parish websiteBradwell Abbey and City Discovery Centre
(located within the parish)
'Parishes : Bradwell'
Victoria History of the Counties of England, A History of the County of Buckingham: Volume 4 (1927), pp. 283–288.
Old Bradwell Tennis Club

Bradwell Memorial Hall
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