Birdbrook

Birdbrook
St. Augustine of Canterbury church, Birdbrook
Birdbrook Location within Essex
Population	379 (Parish, 2021)[1]
OS grid reference	TL707412
Civil parish	Birdbrook
District	Braintree
Shire county	Essex
Region	East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	HALSTEAD
Postcode district	CO9
Dialling code	01440
Police	Essex
Fire	Essex
Ambulance	East of England
UK Parliament	Braintree
List of places UK England Essex 52°02′36″N 0°29′16″E / 52.0432°N 0.4878°E / 52.0432; 0.4878

Birdbrook is a village and civil parish in Essex, England. It is located approximately 6 km (3.7 mi) southeast of Haverhill, Suffolk and is 34 km (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. It is 93 metres above sea level. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 379.

There is a public house called the Plough, and the parish church is dedicated to 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.

References

1. "2021 Census Parish Profiles". NOMIS. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 31 March 2025. (To get individual parish data, use the query function on table PP002.)

http://www.birdbrook.net A Page Dedicated to the Idle of Birdbrook

External links

Media related to Birdbrook at Wikimedia Commons