Bradwell, Milton Keynes

Bradwell
St Lawrence Church, Bradwell (built 1860)
Bradwell is located in Milton Keynes
Bradwell
Bradwell
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Bradwell is located in Buckinghamshire
Bradwell
Bradwell
Location within Buckinghamshire
Population9,657 (2011 Census)[1]
OS grid referenceSP835395
Civil parish
  • Bradwell
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townMILTON KEYNES
Postcode districtMK13
Dialling code01908
PoliceThames Valley
FireBuckinghamshire
AmbulanceSouth Central
UK Parliament
Websitebradwell-pc.gov.uk
List of places
UK
England
Buckinghamshire

52°03′00″N 0°47′13″W / 52.05°N 0.787°W / 52.05; -0.787

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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.

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]

  1. ^ (Civil Parish) UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Bradwell (E04012178)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 17 November 2019.
  2. ^ "Contact your Parish, Town or Community Council". Milton Keynes Council. Retrieved 10 October 2020.
  3. ^ "Key to English place names: Bradwell". Institute for Name-Studies, the University of Nottingham. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
  4. ^ William Page, ed. (1927). "Parishes : Bradwell". A History of the County of Buckingham. Victoria History of the Counties of England. Vol. 4. London: Constable & Co. Ltd. pp. 283–288.
  5. ^ Murrer, Sally (29 September 2021). "Milton Keynes's only youth hostel to be rented out as private home". Milton Keynes Citizen.