Английская Википедия:Bradenham, Norfolk
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Bradenham is a village and civil parish, a conglomeration of East and West Bradenham, in the English county of Norfolk. It is situated some Шаблон:Convert south-west of the town of East Dereham and Шаблон:Convert west of the city of Norwich.[1]
Geography
The civil parish has an area of 16.55 km2 and in the 2001 census had a population of 722 in 301 households,[2] the population decreasing to 700 in 293 households at the 2011 Census.
For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the Breckland district.[3][4]
The River Wissey rises in Bradenham and flows to the west whilst the River Yare rises to the east of Bradenham and flows to the east.
History
Bradenham derives from the Anglo-Saxon for a broad (meaning large) hamlet.[5]
Bradenham is home to St. Mary's Church, a Grade 1 listed building dating back to the Fourteenth Century.
Bradenham Hall was home to the Haggard family for many years and the birthplace of the writer Sir Henry Rider Haggard.[6]
References
External links
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- Information from Genuki Norfolk on East Bradenham and West Bradenham.
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- ↑ Ordnance Survey (1999). OS Explorer Map 237 – Norwich. Шаблон:ISBN.
- ↑ Census population and household counts for unparished urban areas and all parishes. Office for National Statistics and Norfolk County Council (2001). Retrieved 20 June 2009.
- ↑ Visit Breckland Шаблон:Webarchive
- ↑ Office for National Statistics and Norfolk County Council (2001). Census population and household counts for unparished urban areas and all parishes. Retrieved 2 December 2005.
- ↑ University of Nottingham. (2022). Retrieved November, 2022. http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Buckinghamshire/Bradenham
- ↑ Burke, B. (1925). (14th ed.). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Henry Colborn, pp. 804-806.
