Birdbrook

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Birdbrook
Essex
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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.

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