Southend or Bradfield Southend is a small rural village in the west of the
civil parish
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of
Bradfield in the
English county of
Berkshire
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. Until the 1965 opening of its church it was a
hamlet
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. In the
2011 census it had 738 residents, forming 33.9% of the civil parish's recorded population.
Church
St Peter's Church in Southend, Bradfield is in a shared
Church of England parish
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with Bradfield. Opened in 1965, the church seats 100.
Transport
Buses 41 to and from
Thatcham
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stop several times a day in the village. The nearest railway station is
Aldermaston
Aldermaston ( ) is a village and civil parish in Berkshire, England. In the 2011 census, the parish had a population of 1,015. The village is in the Kennet Valley and bounds Hampshire to the south. It is approximately from Newbury, Basin ...
, about by road to the south.
Governance
Administratively it is in
West Berkshire
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History
The district of Newbury was formed on 1 April 1974, as a merger of the borough of Newbur ...
, below which the civil parish council is responsible for minor recreational and events amenities, as well as being a statutory force and consultee in the town and country planning local plans and for all applications submitted within its area.
After each Periodic review since its 1885 creation, Southend has consistently been in the
Newbury Westminster constituency.
Demography
Excluding outlying farms and cottages of Bradfield, Southend, often shown on maps as Bradfield Southend, comprised two Output Areas of the 2011 census. The number of households who had no car or van was 5.7% divided as follows:
Notable residents
Sisters
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and
Pippa Middleton lived here with
their family throughout the 1980s.
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Citations and footnotes
External links
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Villages in Berkshire
Bradfield, Berkshire