Bradwell, Milton Keynes
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Bradwell is an ancient village and modern district in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England, situated approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) north-west of Central Milton Keynes. It has also given its name to a modern civil parish that is part of the City of Milton Keynes.[2] The village was adjacent to Bradwell Abbey, a Benedictine priory, founded in 1155 and dissolved in about 1540, but the abbey and its immediate environs were always a separate ecclesiastical parish.
Bradwell | |
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St Lawrence Church, Bradwell (built 1860) | |
Population | 9,657 (2011 Census)[1] |
OS grid reference | SP835395 |
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Unitary authority | |
Ceremonial county | |
Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | MILTON KEYNES |
Postcode district | MK13 |
Dialling code | 01908 |
Police | Thames Valley |
Fire | Buckinghamshire |
Ambulance | South Central |
UK Parliament | |
Website | bradwell-pc.gov.uk |
52.05°N 0.787°W / 52.05; -0.787 |
The village name is an Old English language word and means broad spring.[3] In the Domesday Book of 1086 the village was recorded as Bradewelle.[4]
There was an YHA youth hostel in the village (near the church and Bradwell Bury), at grid reference SP 831,395: the YHA closed it during the COVID-19 pandemic and terminated its lease in 2021.[5]