Country: | England |
Official Name: | Birdbrook |
Coordinates: | 52.0432°N 0.4878°W |
Os Grid Reference: | TL707412 |
Population: | 397 |
Population Ref: | (2011)[1] |
Civil Parish: | Birdbrook |
Shire District: | Braintree |
Shire County: | Essex |
Region: | East of England |
Constituency Westminster: | Braintree |
Post Town: | HALSTEAD |
Postcode District: | CO9 |
Postcode Area: | CO |
Dial Code: | 01440 |
Static Image Name: | St. Augustine of Canterbury church, Birdbrook, Essex - geograph.org.uk - 167924.jpg |
Static Image Caption: | St. Augustine of Canterbury church, Birdbrook |
Birdbrook is a village and civil parish in Essex, England. It is located approximately 6km (04miles) southeast of Haverhill, Suffolk and is 34 km (21 miles) north from the county town of Chelmsford. The village is in the district of Braintree and in the parliamentary constituency of Saffron Walden. The parish is part of the Bumpsteads and Upper Colne parish cluster.[2] It is 93 metres above sea level. According to the 2011 census it had a population of 397.[1] There is a Public House, "The Plough" and a Church, "St Augustine of Canterbury".
Nearby Moyns Park, a Grade I listed Elizabethan country house, is said to have been where Ian Fleming put the finishing touches on his novel From Russia, with Love.
http://www.birdbrook.net A Page Dedicated to the Idle of Birdbrook