Bradnop

Bradnop
Bradnop Church
Bradnop Location within Staffordshire
Population	310 (2011) [1]
OS grid reference	SK0155
District	Staffordshire Moorlands
Shire county	Staffordshire
Region	West Midlands
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Leek
Postcode district	ST13
Police	Staffordshire
Fire	Staffordshire
Ambulance	West Midlands
UK Parliament	Staffordshire Moorlands
List of places UK England Staffordshire 53°05′N1°59′W / 53.09°N 01.98°W / 53.09; -01.98

Bradnop is a village in Staffordshire, England, located just a few miles to the southeast of the market town of Leek. The name Bradnop was first recorded in 1197, and gets its name from the Old English words "bradan", meaning broad, and "hop", meaning enclosed valley. Historically Bradnop was a township of the parish of Leek, and later became a civil parish in its own right, with an area 3,568 acres (1,444 hectares). ^[2]

Transport

In the past, Bradnop was once served by a railway station (on the Cauldon Lowe branch, though however trains on the nearby preserved Churnet Valley Railway pass by Bradnop, but only to as far as Ipstones. Also at Bradnop, lies the 36yd long Bradnop Tunnel also the branch and possibly the shortest on the line as well as the CVR itself.

See also

• Listed buildings in Bradnop

References

1. "Civil Parish population 2011" . Retrieved 5 December 2015.
2. "A History of the County of Stafford: Volume 7: Leek and the Moorlands". accessed via British History Online. 1996. pp. 169–175. Retrieved 11 November 2014.

External links

Media related to Bradnop at Wikimedia Commons