Birdbrook

Birdbrook

infobox UK place
country = England
official_name= Birdbrook
latitude= 52.0432
longitude= 0.4878
os_grid_reference= TL707412
population = 369 (2001)
civil_parish= Birdbrook
shire_district= Braintree
shire_county = Essex
region= East of England
constituency_westminster= Saffron Walden
post_town= HALSTEAD
postcode_district = CO9
postcode_area= CO
dial_code= 01440

Birdbrook is a village and civil parish in Essex, England. It is located approximately 6 km (4 miles) southeast of Haverhill, Suffolk and is 34km (21 miles) north from the county town of Chelmsford. The village is in the district of Braintree and in the parliamentary constituency of Saffron Walden. The parish is part of the Bumpsteads and Upper Colne parish cluster.cite web |url=http://www.braintree.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/8095EE77-2A1C-41DB-984D-CC05F89C25B1/0/parishclustermap2005.jpg|title=Parish cluster map |accessdate=2007-01-27 |format=JPG |work=www.braintree.gov.uk ] It is 93 metres above sea level. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 369.Fact|date=February 2007 There is a Public House, The Plough and a Church, St Augustine of Canterbury.

Nearby Moyns Park, a Grade I listed Elizabethan country house, is said to have been where Ian Fleming put the finishing touches on his novel "From Russia with Love".

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