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Bradnop
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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).
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- Locality
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 0
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Key facts
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.static_image
- Bradnop_Church_-_geograph.org.uk_-_224611.jpg
- UK place.static_image_width
- 240px
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Bradnop Church
- UK place.official_name
- Bradnop
- UK place.population
- 310
- UK place.population_ref
- (2011)
- UK place.shire_district
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- UK place.shire_county
- Staffordshire
- UK place.region
- West Midlands
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- UK place.post_town
- Leek
- UK place.postcode_district
- ST13
- UK place.postcode_area
- ST
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SK0155
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- Population
- 310
- Image
- Bradnop Church - geograph.org.uk - 224611.jpg
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- Bradnop
- OS grid reference
- SK0155
- P8168
- ornamental plant
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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).
== 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 , 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.
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