Bradwell, Norfolk

Human settlement in England

Great Yarmouth

Norfolk

Region

East

CountryEnglandSovereign stateUnited KingdomPost townGREAT YARMOUTHPostcode districtNR31PoliceNorfolkFire Norfolk Ambulance East of England

List of places: UK; England; Norfolk

52°34′28″N 1°41′39″E / 52.57432°N 1.69406°E / 52.57432; 1.69406

Bradwell is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The village is immediately to the west of, and largely indistinguishable from, the built-up urban area of the town of Great Yarmouth.^[1]

History

Bradwell's name derives from the Anglo-Saxon words for a broad stream.^[1]

Bradwell's Church of St. Nicholas is one of the 185 surviving English Round-tower churches, built before the Norman Conquest.

Bradwell is not featured in the Domesday Book.^[2]

Geography

The civil parish has an area of 9.74 km² and in the 2001 census had a population of 10,318 in 4,347 households. The population taken at the 2011 Census was 10,528.^[3]

Schools

Bradwell's' schools include: Hillside Primary School, Homefield Church of England Primary and Nursery School, Lynn Grove High, and Woodlands Primary and Nursery School.

Parish Council and Local Government

For the purposes of local government, the parish today falls within the district of Great Yarmouth. However prior to the Local Government Act 1972, the parish was within Lothingland Rural District in Suffolk.^[2]^[3]

Bradwell Parish Council has responsibility for a number of amenities within the village, and will make representations to the borough council, county council, police and others to secure improvements to services within the village. Its 'base' is the Leo Coles Pavilion, located on the Green Lane Playing Field site – its meetings take place there, and the clerk's office is situated there. The council publishes a twice-yearly newspaper, The Bradwellian, which is delivered to every household in Bradwell by a team of volunteers.^[4]

War memorial

Bradwell's War Memorial is an Obelisk located on Church Walk.^[5] It bears the following names for the First World War and the Russian Civil War:

Major Percy Wiltshire (1872–1917), 251st (Siege) Battery, Royal Field Artillery
Stoker-First Class Herbert J. Adams (1897–1919), HMS L55
Lance-Corporal Walter J. C. Moore (1895–1917), 1/5th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment
Driver Ernest W. Shorten (1885–1919), Royal Army Service Corps
Private Harry Delph (1888–1915), 1st Battalion, Essex Regiment
Private Harry C. Breeze (1881–1918), 34th Battalion, London Regiment
Private Alec V. Ellis (1897–1918), 1/5th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment
Private Frederick W. Chaplin (1886–1919), The Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment
Private Frederick C. Amis (1893–1918), 3rd Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment
Sapper Roland J. Tubby (1897–1916), 4th (Provisional) Company, Royal Engineers
Deckhand Alfred C. Howes (1889–1916), HM Drifter Hillary II
Deckhand Robert J. Willis (1890–1915), H.M. Drifter Masterpiece
Deckhand George I. Bessey (1895–1917), HM Trawler Evadine Hull
Deckhand Henry S. Parfitt (1882–1917), H.M. Trawler Jay
Arthur W. Bailey (1885–1918), H.M. Trawler Reserve

And, the following for the Second World War:

Flight-Lieutenant Roger Cook (1920–1944), No. 168 Squadron RAF
Lieutenant Michael H. C. Bellamy (1924–1944), 2nd Battalion, King's Shropshire Light Infantry
Sergeant William D. Palmer (1885–1942), No. 408 Squadron, RCAF
Sergeant Roy C. Bailey (1926–1945), Royal Air Force
Able-Seaman John H. Cooper (1886–1943), HMS Pembroke (Shore Installation)
Lance-Corporal Robert A. Brown (1920–1940), 2nd Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment
Guardsman Charles H. J. Marler (1920–1944), 3rd Battalion, Irish Guards
Gunner Herbert W. Tubby (1922–1943), 4th (Maritime) Regiment, Royal Artillery
Gunner Charles A. Mace (1916–1940), 4th Regiment, Royal Horse Artillery
Stoker R. William Eagle (1899–1942), H.M. Trawler Northern Princess
Trooper Christopher J. O. Ball (1910–1942), Royal Armoured Corps
Mr Roland R. George of the East Dudgeon Lightship^[6]

Notable residents

Mervyn King– professional Darts player.

References

^ University of Nottingham. (2022). Retrieved November 6, 2022. http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Buckinghamshire/Bradwell
^ Domesday Book. (1086). Retrieved November 6, 2022. https://opendomesday.org/map/
^ "Parish population 2011". Retrieved 24 August 2015.
^ Bradwell Parish Council. (2022). Retrieved November 6, 2022. http://www.bradwellparishcouncil.gov.uk/
^ Imperial War Museum. (2022). Retrieved November 7, 2022. https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/81119
^ Howlett, T. (2014). Retrieved November 7, 2022. http://www.bradwellparishcouncil.gov.uk/war-memorial/