Bradnop

Bradnop
Bradnop Church
Bradnop Bradnop shown within Staffordshire
Population	310 (2011)^[1]
OS grid reference	SK0155
Shire county	Staffordshire
Region	West Midlands
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Leek
Postcode district	ST13 7
Police	Staffordshire
Fire	Staffordshire
Ambulance	West Midlands
EU Parliament	West Midlands
List of places UK England Staffordshire

Coordinates: 53°05′N 1°59′W / 53.09°N 01.98°W / 53.09; -01.98

Bradnop is a village in Staffordshire, England, located just a few miles to the southeast of the market town of Leek. The name Bradnop was first recorded in 1197, and gets its name from the Old English words "bradan", meaning broad, and "hop", meaning enclosed valley. Historically Bradnop was a township of the parish of Leek parish, and later became a civil parish in its own right, with an area 3,568 acres (1,444 hectares).^[2]

Transport

In the past, Bradnop was once served by a railway station (on the Cauldon Lowe branch, though however trains on the nearby preserved Churnet Valley Railway pass by Bradnop, but only to as far as Ipstones. Also at Bradnop, lies the 36yd long Bradnop Tunnel also the branch and possibly the shortest on the line as well as the CVR itself.

References

↑ "Civil Parish population 2011". Retrieved 5 December 2015.
↑ "A History of the County of Stafford: Volume 7: Leek and the Moorlands". accessed via British History Online. 1996. pp. 169–175. Retrieved 11 November 2014.

External links

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Ceremonial county of Staffordshire

Unitary authorities	Stoke-on-Trent

Boroughs or districts	Cannock Chase East Staffordshire Lichfield Newcastle-under-Lyme South Staffordshire Stafford Staffordshire Moorlands Tamworth

Major settlements	Biddulph Burntwood Burton upon Trent Cannock Cheadle Eccleshall Fazeley Hednesford Kidsgrove Leek Lichfield Newcastle-under-Lyme Penkridge Rugeley Stafford Stoke-on-Trent Burslem Fenton Hanley Longton Stoke Tunstall Stone Tamworth Uttoxeter See also: List of civil parishes in Staffordshire

Rivers	Anker Blithe Churnet Dane Dove Manifold Mease Penk Sow Swarbourn Tame Trent Wheelock

Canals	Birmingham & Fazeley Caldon Lichfield Shropshire Union Staffs & Worcestershire Trent & Mersey Wyrley & Essington

Topics	Flag Museums Schools Grade I buildings Grade II* buildings Windmills High Sheriffs

Civil parishes of Staffordshire Moorlands

Council	Staffordshire Moorlands District Council

Civil parishes	Alstonefield Alton Bagnall Biddulph Blore with Swinscoe Bradnop Brown Edge Butterton Caverswall Cheadle Checkley Cheddleton Consall Coton Dilhorne Draycott in the Moors Endon and Stanley Farley Fawfieldhead Forsbrook Grindon Heathylee Heaton Hollinsclough Horton Ilam Ipstones Kingsley Leek Leekfrith Longnor Longsdon Oakamoor Onecote Quarnford Rushton Sheen Tittesworth Warslow and Elkstones Waterhouses Werrington Wetton

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