Bradwell is a village and

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in the

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. The village is immediately to the west of, and largely indistinguishable from, the built-up urban area of the town of

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History

Bradwell's name derives from the Anglo-Saxon words for a broad stream. Bradwell's Church of St. Nicholas is one of the 185 surviving English Round-tower churches, built before the

Norman Conquest The Norman Conquest (or the Conquest) was the 11th-century invasion and occupation of England by an army made up of thousands of Norman, Breton, Flemish, and French troops, all led by the Duke of Normandy, later styled William the Conque ...

. Bradwell is not featured in the

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Geography

The civil parish has an area of 9.74 km² and in the 2001 census had a population of 10,318 in 4,347 households. The population taken at the 2011 Census was 10,528.

Schools

Bradwell's' schools include: Hillside Primary School, Homefield Church of England Primary and Nursery School, Lynn Grove High, and Woodlands Primary and Nursery School.

Parish Council and Local Government

For the purposes of local government, the parish today falls within the

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. However prior to the

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, the parish was within

Lothingland Rural District Lothingland was a rural district in East Suffolk, England, named after the ancient half-hundred of Lothingland which was merged with Mutford half-hundred in 1763 to form Mutford and Lothingland. The rural district was formed in 1934 by the mer ...

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. Bradwell Parish Council has responsibility for a number of amenities within the village, and will make representations to the Borough Council, County Council, Police and others to secure improvements to services within the village. Its ‘base’ is the Leo Coles Pavilion, located on the Green Lane Playing Field site – its meetings take place there, and the clerk's office is situated there. The council publishes a twice-yearly newspaper, ‘the Bradwellian’, which is delivered to every household in Bradwell by a team of volunteers.

War Memorial

Bradwell's War Memorial is an

Obelisk An obelisk (; from grc, ὀβελίσκος ; diminutive of ''obelos'', " spit, nail, pointed pillar") is a tall, four-sided, narrow tapering monument which ends in a pyramid-like shape or pyramidion at the top. Originally constructed by Anc ...

located on Church Walk. It bears the following names for the

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and the

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: * Major Percy Wiltshire (1872-1917), 251st (Siege) Battery,

Royal Field Artillery The Royal Field Artillery (RFA) of the British Army provided close artillery support for the infantry. It came into being when created as a distinct arm of the Royal Regiment of Artillery on 1 July 1899, serving alongside the other two arms of t ...

* Stoker-First Class Herbert J. Adams (1897-1919),

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* Lance-Corporal Walter J. C. Moore (1895-1917), 1/5th Battalion,

Royal Norfolk Regiment The Royal Norfolk Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army until 1959. Its predecessor regiment was raised in 1685 as Henry Cornwall's Regiment of Foot. In 1751, it was numbered like most other British Army regiments and named ...

* Driver Ernest W. Shorten (1885-1919),

Royal Army Service Corps The Royal Army Service Corps (RASC) was a corps of the British Army responsible for land, coastal and lake transport, air despatch, barracks administration, the Army Fire Service, staffing headquarters' units, supply of food, water, fuel and dom ...

* Private Harry Delph (1888-1915), 1st Battalion,

Essex Regiment The Essex Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 to 1958. The regiment served in many conflicts such as the Second Boer War and both World War I and World War II, serving with distinction in all three. ...

* Private Harry C. Breeze (1881-1918), 34th Battalion, London Regiment * Private Alec V. Ellis (1897-1918), 1/5th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment * Private Frederick W. Chaplin (1886-1919),

The Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment The Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army which existed from 1959 to 1966. In 1966, it was amalgamated with the Queen's Own Buffs, The Royal Kent Regiment, the Royal Sussex Regiment and the Middlesex Regime ...

* Private Frederick C. Amis (1893-1918), 3rd Battalion,

Royal Sussex Regiment The Royal Sussex Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army that was in existence from 1881 to 1966. The regiment was formed in 1881 as part of the Childers Reforms by the amalgamation of the 35th (Royal Sussex) Regiment of Foot ...

* Sapper Roland J. Tubby (1897-1916), 4th (Provisional) Company,

Royal Engineers The Corps of Royal Engineers, usually called the Royal Engineers (RE), and commonly known as the ''Sappers'', is a corps of the British Army. It provides military engineering and other technical support to the British Armed Forces and is heade ...

* Deckhand Alfred C. Howes (1889-1916), '' HM Drifter Hillary II'' * Deckhand Robert J. Willis (1890-1915), ''H.M. Drifter Masterpiece'' * Deckhand George I. Bessey (1895-1917), '' HM Trawler Evadine Hull'' * Deckhand Henry S. Parfitt (1882-1917), ''H.M. Trawler Jay'' * Arthur W. Bailey (1885-1918), H.M. Trawler Reserve And, the following for the

Second World War World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

: * Flight-Lieutenant Roger Cook (1920-1944),

No. 168 Squadron RAF No. 168 Squadron RAF was a Second World War Royal Air Force squadron that operated the North American P-51 Mustang, North American Mustang on missions over occupied Europe and in support of the D-Day landings. History The squadron was formed on 1 ...

* Lieutenant Michael H. C. Bellamy (1924-1944), 2nd Battalion,

King's Shropshire Light Infantry The King's Shropshire Light Infantry (KSLI) was a light infantry regiment of the British Army, formed in the Childers Reforms of 1881, but with antecedents dating back to 1755. It served in the Second Boer War, World War I and World War II. In 196 ...

* Sergeant William D. Palmer (1885-1942), No. 408 Squadron, RCAF * Sergeant Roy C. Bailey (1926-1945),

Royal Air Force The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the United Kingdom's air and space force. It was formed towards the end of the First World War on 1 April 1918, becoming the first independent air force in the world, by regrouping the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) and ...

* Able-Seaman John H. Cooper (1886-1943), ''HMS Pembroke'' (Shore Installation) * Lance-Corporal Robert A. Brown (1920-1940), 2nd Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment * Guardsman Charles H. J. Marler (1920-1944), 3rd Battalion,

Irish Guards The Irish Guards (IG), is one of the Foot Guards regiments of the British Army and is part of the Guards Division. Together with the Royal Irish Regiment, it is one of the two Irish infantry regiments in the British Army. The regiment has parti ...

* Gunner Herbert W. Tubby (1922-1943), 4th (Maritime) Regiment,

Royal Artillery The Royal Regiment of Artillery, commonly referred to as the Royal Artillery (RA) and colloquially known as "The Gunners", is one of two regiments that make up the artillery arm of the British Army. The Royal Regiment of Artillery comprises t ...

* Gunner Charles A. Mace (1916-1940), 4th Regiment,

Royal Horse Artillery The Royal Horse Artillery (RHA) was formed in 1793 as a distinct arm of the Royal Regiment of Artillery (commonly termed Royal Artillery) to provide horse artillery support to the cavalry units of the British Army. (Although the cavalry link ...

* Stoker R. William Eagle (1899-1942), ''H.M. Trawler Northern Princess'' * Trooper Christopher J. O. Ball (1910-1942),

Royal Armoured Corps The Royal Armoured Corps is the component of the British Army, that together with the Household Cavalry provides its armour capability, with vehicles such as the Challenger 2 Tank and the Scimitar Reconnaissance Vehicle. It includes most of the A ...

* Mr Roland R. George of the East Dudgeon Lightship Howlett, T. (2014). Retrieved November 07, 2022. http://www.bradwellparishcouncil.gov.uk/war-memorial/

Notable Residents

Mervyn King- professional Darts player.

References

External links

St Nicholas Church, Bradwell

St Nicholas on the European Round Tower Churches Website
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