Braintree District
Braintree District is a local government district in Essex, England. The district is named after the town of Braintree, where the council is based. The district also includes the towns of Halstead and Witham and surrounding rural areas.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality with 151,000 residents
- Description: non-metropolitan district in Essex, England, UK
- Also known as: “Braintree”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Bocking Windmill and Bovingdon Hall Woods.
Bocking Windmill
Photo: Brenda Howard, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bocking Windmill or Bocking Churchstreet Windmill is a grade I listed post mill at Bocking, Essex, England which has been restored.
Bovingdon Hall Woods
Forest
Photo: Dudley Miles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Bovingdon Hall Woods is a 69.4-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north of Braintree in Essex. It is composed of several woods, including Parkhall Wood, Bovingdon Wood, Shoulder of Mutton Wood, and Maid's Wood.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Halstead and Braintree.
Halstead
Photo: RobThinks, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Halstead is a town and civil parish in the Braintree district of Essex, England. It lies on the River Colne, 6 miles north-east of Braintree and 12 miles north-west of Colchester.
Braintree
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Braintree is a town in Essex, England. For a town of its size it boasts very few amenities. However, a shopping village on the outskirts, 'Freeport', has roughly 80 shops.
Bocking Churchstreet
Village
Photo: Robert Edwards, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bocking is a suburban village on the northern side of Braintree, in Essex, England. Bocking village was historically in two parts; the original settlement around the parish church became known as Bocking Churchstreet, while a separate linear settlement called Bocking grew up a little way to the south along Bradford Street and The Causeway, adjoining the northern edge of Braintree.
Braintree District
- Category: non-metropolitan district
- Location: Essex, East of England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bavarian to Yue Chinese—“Braintree District” goes by many names.
- Bavarian: “Braintree”
- Belarusian: “Брэйнтры”
- Cebuano: “Braintree District”
- Chinese: “Braintree”
- Chinese: “布倫特里區”
- Chinese: “布蘭翠”
- Dutch: “Braintree (Engeland)”
- Dutch: “Braintree District”
- Dutch: “Braintree”
- French: “Braintree”
- German: “Braintree District”
- German: “Braintree”
- Irish: “Braintree”
- Italian: “Braintree”
- Italian: “Distretto di Braintree”
- Japanese: “ブレントリー”
- Korean: “브레인트리구”
- Latvian: “Breintrī distrikts”
- Latvian: “Breintrī”
- Luxembourgish: “Braintree”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Braintree (koān)”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Braintree (distrikt)”
- Norwegian: “Braintree”
- Polish: “Braintree (dystrykt)”
- Polish: “Braintree”
- Russian: “Брейнтри”
- Russian: “район Брейнтри”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Braintree”
- Slovenian: “Braintree”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Braintree”
- Swedish: “Braintree (distrikt)”
- Swedish: “Braintree District”
- Urdu: “برینٹری ضلع”
- Welsh: “Ardal Braintree”
- Yue Chinese: “布蘭翠”
- “Braintree”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as High Garrett and Gosfield.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Bocking Mill Hill and Cressing Road.
Essex: Must-Visit Destinations
Delve into Colchester, Chelmsford, Southend-on-Sea, and Basildon.
Curious Places to Discover
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