Bradden
St Michael's Church, Bradden
Bradden is located in Northamptonshire
Bradden
Bradden
Location within Northamptonshire
Population149 (2011 Census)
OS grid referenceSP647483
• London69 miles (111 km)
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townTowcester
Postcode districtNN12
Dialling code01327
PoliceNorthamptonshire
FireNorthamptonshire
AmbulanceEast Midlands
UK Parliament

Bradden is a village and civil parish in West Northamptonshire, England, about 4 miles (6.4 km) west of Towcester. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 179,[1] falling to 149 at the 2011 census.[2]

The villages name means 'broad valley'.[3]

Buildings

The Parish Church is dedicated to St Michael and is 13th century.[4]

There is a Manor House dated 1819 but there was an earlier pre-Reformation house before and the front looks earlier than 1819.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Office for National Statistics: Bradden CP: Parish headcounts. Retrieved 7 November 2009
  2. ↑ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 29 June 2016.
  3. ↑ "Key to English Place-names".
  4. 1 2 Pevsner, Nikolaus; Cherry, Bridget (revision) (1961). The Buildings of England – Northamptonshire. London and New Haven: Yale University Press. pp. 118–9. ISBN 978-0-300-09632-3.

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