Braintree

Braintree is a town in , . For a town of its size it boasts very few amenities. However, a shopping village on the outskirts, 'Freeport', has roughly 80 shops.
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  • Type: Town with 43,200 residents
  • Description: town in Essex, England
  • Also known as: “Braintree, Essex”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Braintree Freeport railway station and Braintree railway station.

Railway station
is on the Braintree Branch Line in the , serving the Braintree Village shopping centre. It is 44 miles 16 chains down the line from via and it is situated between to the south and to the north.

Railway station
Photo: Brenda Howard, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is the northern terminus of the Braintree Branch Line in the , serving the town of Braintree, Essex. It is 44 miles 78 chains down the line from via ; the preceding station on the route is to the south.

Library
Photo: Oxyman, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Tye Green and Bocking Churchstreet.

Hamlet
is a village in the civil parish of and the Braintree district of , England. In 2018, it had an estimated population of 1,114.

Village
Photo: Robert Edwards, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bocking is a suburban village on the northern side of Braintree, in , England. Bocking village was historically in two parts; the original settlement around the parish church became known as , 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.

Hamlet
is a hamlet in the civil parish and the Uttlesford district of , England. The nearest town is Braintree. is situated 2½ miles southwest of Braintree.

Braintree

Latitude
51.8781° or 51° 52′ 41″ north
Longitude
0.5537° or 0° 33′ 13″ east
Population
43,200
Elevation
223 feet (68 metres)
IATA airport code
WXF
United Nations Location Code
GB BRI
Open location code
9F32VHH3+6F
Open­Street­Map ID
node 21503284
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2654938
Wiki­data ID
Q676067
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Braintree” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “براينتري”
  • Armenian: “Բրեյնթտի”
  • Asturian: “Braintree”
  • Basque: “Braintree (Essex)”
  • Basque: “Braintree”
  • Belarusian: “Брэйнтры”
  • Bengali: “ব্রেইন্ট্রি”
  • Bulgarian: “Брейнтрий”
  • Catalan: “Braintree”
  • Cebuano: “Braintree”
  • Chinese: “布伦特里”
  • Chinese: “布倫特里”
  • Czech: “Braintree”
  • Danish: “Braintree”
  • Dutch: “Braintree”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “براينترى”
  • French: “Braintree”
  • German: “Braintree”
  • Gujarati: “બ્રેનટ્રી”
  • Hebrew: “בריינטרי”
  • Irish: “Braintree, Essex”
  • Irish: “Braintree”
  • Italian: “Braintree”
  • Japanese: “ブレインツリー”
  • Kannada: “ಬ್ರೈನ್ಟ್ರೀ”
  • Korean: “브레인트리”
  • Ladin: “Braintree”
  • Latin: “Magna Reines”
  • Latvian: “Breintrī”
  • Lithuanian: “Breintris”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Braintree i Essex”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Braintree”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Braintree i Essex”
  • Persian: “براینتری، اسکس”
  • Polish: “Braintree”
  • Portuguese: “Braintree”
  • Romanian: “Braintree, Essex”
  • Russian: “Брейнтри”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Braintree, Essex”
  • Slovenian: “Braintree”
  • South Azerbaijani: “براینتری، اسکس”
  • Spanish: “Braintree”
  • Swedish: “Braintree”
  • Tamil: “ப்ராய்ண்ட்ரீ”
  • Telugu: “బ్రెయిన్టీ”
  • Ukrainian: “Брейнтрі”
  • Urdu: “براینتری”
  • Volapük: “Braintree”
  • Welsh: “Braintree, Essex”
  • Welsh: “Braintree”

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