Bredenbury

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Bredenbury
Herefordshire

Pasture near Bredenbury
Location
Grid reference: SO609563
Location: 52°12’14"N, 2°34’19"W
Data
Population: 169  (2011[1])
Post town: Bromyard
Postcode: HR7
Dialling code: 01885
Local Government
Council: Herefordshire
Parliamentary
constituency:
North Herefordshire

Bredenbury is a village and parish in the hundred of Broxash in Herefordshire. It is located 12⅓ miles north-east of Hereford. The village lies on the A44 road, three miles from Bromyard and eight miles from Leominster.[2]

The parish had a population of 185 in the 2001 UK Census, reducing to 169 at the 2011 census, and is grouped with Grendon Bishop and Wacton to form Bredenbury & District Group Parish Council for administrative purposes.

The parish church, dedicated to St Andrew, is in the style of 1300 but was built in the 1870s from a design by T H Wyatt.[3] Land for the church was donated by William Barneby, of nearby Bredenbury Court. The Barneby family commissioned many of the interior furnishings for the new church.[4] Wyatt also designed the first phase of Bredenbury Court in the Italianate style. An extension in 1902 was designed by Sir Guy Dawber.[3]

Bredenbury Primary School is much smaller than average but was rated as outstanding by Ofsted in 2008.

References

  1. "Parish population 2011". http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11121128&c=HR7+4LR&d=16&e=62&g=6385776&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=0&s=1446048118362&enc=1. Retrieved 28 October 2015. 
  2. Hereford and Leominster (Landranger Maps) (B2 ed.), Ordnance Survey, 2007, ISBN 978-0-319-22953-8 
  3. 3.0 3.1 Pevsner, Nikolaus (1963). The Buildings of England - Herefordshire. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. pp. 82. ISBN 978-0-300-09609-5. 
  4. "British Listed Buildings - Church of St Andrew, Bredenbury". British Listed Buildings. http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-493374-church-of-st-andrew-bredenbury. Retrieved 2011-05-01. 

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