Braywick, Berkshire

Human settlement in England

Berkshire

Region

South East

CountryEnglandSovereign stateUnited KingdomPost townMaidenheadPostcode districtSL6PoliceThames ValleyFire Royal Berkshire Ambulance South Central

List of places: UK; England; Berkshire

51°30′N 0°43′W / 51.50°N 00.71°W / 51.50; -00.71

Braywick (sometimes written as Bray Wick) is a linear suburb south of the town of Maidenhead in Berkshire, England. It was formerly part of the parish of Bray.

Geography

Natural conservation areas

Braywick Park is a park and local nature reserve on the west side of the York Stream.^[1] Adjoining this, on the east side of the stream, is a site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) called Bray Meadows.^[2]

Notable people

Arthur Dillon (1750–1794) was an Irish Catholic aristocrat born in England who inherited the ownership of a regiment that served France under the Ancien Régime during the American Revolutionary War and then the French First Republic during the War of the First Coalition.

References

^ "Magic Map Application - Braywick Park". Magic.defra.gov.uk. Retrieved 6 May 2017.
^ "Magic Map Application - Bray meadows". Magic.defra.gov.uk. Retrieved 19 March 2017.