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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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BRADWELL, a village, a parish, and a subdistrict, in the district of Maldon, Essex. The village stands near the point of the peninsula between the Blackwater estuary and the sea, 5½ miles by water, but 12 by road, E of Maldon r. station; and has a post office under Maldon, and a fair on 24 June. It is thought by Camden to occupy the site of the Roman Othona and the Saxon Ithancestre. The parish is sometimes called Bradwellnext-the-Sea; and comprises 4,734 acres of land, and 5,381 of water. Real property, £8,151. Pop., 1,094. Houses, 217. The property is divided among a few. Bradwell Lodge is a chief residence. There are decoys for wild fowls. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £1,624.* Patron, W. M. Warner, Esq. The church is good; and there are charities £109.-The subdistrict contains five parishes. Acres, 25,887. Pop., 2,828. Houses, 579.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village, a parish, and a subdistrict" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Bradwell CP/AP Bradwell on Sea AP/CP Essex AncC |
| Place: | Bradwell on Sea |
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