Birdbrook

Birdbrook
Birdbrook
	St. Augustine of Canterbury church, Birdbrook
	Birdbrook Location within Essex
Population	397 (2011)
OS grid reference	TL707412
Civil parish	Birdbrook;
District	Braintree;
Shire county	Essex;
Region	East;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	HALSTEAD
Postcode district	CO9
Dialling code	01440
Police	Essex
Fire	Essex
Ambulance	East of England
UK Parliament	Braintree;
	List of places UK England Essex 52°02′36″N 0°29′16″E / 52.0432°N 0.4878°E

Birdbrook is a village and civil parish in Essex, England. It is located approximately 6 km (3.7 mi) 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.

References

^ ^a ^b "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 31 August 2016.
^ "Parish cluster map". www.braintree.gov.uk. Archived from the original (JPG) on 14 October 2006. Retrieved 27 January 2007.

http://www.birdbrook.net A Page Dedicated to the Idle of Birdbrook

External links

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[ONS-1] "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 31 August 2016.

[parishmap-2] "Parish cluster map". www.braintree.gov.uk. Archived from the original (JPG) on 14 October 2006. Retrieved 27 January 2007.

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