New Bradwell
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New Bradwell is (mainly) a Victorian era new village, modern district and civil parish that is now part of Milton Keynes, on its northern edge. Together with Wolverton (on the other side of the West Coast Main Line), it was built primarily to house the workers on the Wolverton railway works.
The original Bradwell lies south of New Bradwell.
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[edit] Historic events
During the Second World War, the "Bradwell Blitz" consisted of one bomb on one night, but was the most dramatic event in this part of North Buckinghamshire. (The activities at Bletchley Park a few miles south were top secret). Whilst it may have been aimed at the Works, it seems more likely that the bomb was merely jettisoned by the Luftwaffe on return from Birmingham or Coventry, completely unaware of what lay below.
[edit] Civil parish
The parish of New Bradwell was created in 1919 from part of the Bradwell parish, and formed part of the Wolverton urban district (with the rest of the Bradwell parish remaining in Newport Pagnell Rural District). The parish was merged into Wolverton parish in 1934. It was re-established in 2001 as part of a general parishing of all the unparished areas of Milton Keynes.
The parish is bounded to the north by the Great Ouse, to the west by V6 Grafton Street, to the south by the route of the former Wolverton/Newport Pagnell railway line (now at redway) and to the east by a short stretch of the Grand Union Canal.
At the 2001 census, the population of the parish was 2,990[1]
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- Aerial image from TerraServer
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