Birdbrook
| Birdbrook | |
| Essex | |
|---|---|
 St Augustine of Canterbury church | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TL707412 |
| Location: | 52°2’36"N, -0°29’16"E |
| Data | |
| Population: | 397 (2011[1]) |
| Post town: | Halstead |
| Postcode: | CO9 |
| Dialling code: | 01440 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Braintree |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Braintree |
Birdbrook is a village and parish in the Hinckford hundred of Essex. It is located approximately four miles south-east of Haverhill, Suffolk and is 21 miles north of the county town of Chelmsford. It is 305 feet above sea level. According to the 2011 census it had a population of 397.[1] There is a public house, "The Plough" and a parish church, dedicated to 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
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11120741&c=Birdbrook&d=16&e=62&g=6423065&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&o=362&m=0&r=1&s=1472653548538&enc=1. Retrieved 31 August 2016.
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