| Static Image Name: | St Lawrence Church, Bradwell - geograph.org.uk - 208579.jpg | ||||||
| Static Image Caption: | St Lawrence Church, Bradwell (built 1860) | ||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||
| Coordinates: | 52.05°N -0.787°W | ||||||
| Population: | 9,657 | ||||||
| Population Ref: | (2011 Census)[1] | ||||||
| Official Name: | Bradwell | ||||||
| Civil Parish: | Bradwell | ||||||
| Unitary England: | Milton Keynes | ||||||
| Lieutenancy England: | Buckinghamshire | ||||||
| Region: | South East England | ||||||
| Constituency Westminster: | Milton Keynes North | ||||||
| Post Town: | MILTON KEYNES | ||||||
| Postcode District: | MK13 | ||||||
| Postcode Area: | MK | ||||||
| Dial Code: | 01908 | ||||||
| Os Grid Reference: | SP835395 | ||||||
| Website: | bradwell-pc.gov.uk | ||||||
| Pushpin Map: | United Kingdom Milton Keynes | ||||||
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Bradwell is an ancient village and modern district in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England, situated approximately 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 : the YHA closed it during the COVID-19 pandemic and terminated its lease in 2021.[5]
The parish of Bradwell consists of the Bradwell village grid square, along with Bradwell Abbey, Heelands, Rooksley, and Bradwell Common. The parish had a population of 9,657 according to the 2011 census. The parish is bounded by the railway line or the A5 to the west, Monks Way to the north, Portway to the east, and Dansteed Way to the south.
St. Lawrence's Church is a Grade II*-listed building, dating from the 13th century, and receiving its first vicar in 1223.[6] It is believed to contain the oldest change ringing bells still in use, two of which were cast in 1297 by Michael de Wymbish of London.[7] [8]
Adjoining the sports field is the Bradwell Conservation Area, which is centered on St Lawrence's Field and is administered by the parish council as a nature conservation area.
On Vicarage Road is the Bradwell Memorial Hall, built as the village's war memorial after World War I.
On Primrose Road is King George's Field in memorial to King George V with a children's play area.
See main article: Bradwell Abbey. Bradwell Abbey is a Scheduled Monument, urban studies site (and a modern district). The site was once the location of a Benedictine priory, founded in 1155. The only remaining ecclesiastic building, the Chapel of St Mary, is a Grade I listed building. There are a further five Grade II listed buildings or structures on the Abbey grounds.[10]
See main article: Bradwell railway station and Wolverton–Newport Pagnell line. Bradwell railway station, which was on the Wolverton–Newport Pagnell branch line, served Bradwell from 1867 to 1964. In the present day, the former railway line (now a rail trail that is part of the redway network) forms the boundary between Bradville (in Stantonbury CP) and New Bradwell CP; the station platform is on the New Bradwell side.
Bradwell has a Non-League football team Old Bradwell United F.C. who play at Abbey Road, where there is a large sports field with a cricket pitch and several football pitches. The Old Bradwell Tennis Club is also affiliated to the Bradwell Sports and Social Club which has the use of these facilities.
Bradwell Bowls Club enters competitive teams in the local league.[11]
Rooksley, at the western edge of the parish, has an important Karting track (not in Bradwell parish).
The demography of Bradwell electoral ward is given at .