Welcome to the website for Bradwell Parish Heritage
This website is being developed. Do call back from time to time to see what we’ve been able to add to the site.
The Parish covers the area of Milton Keynes enclosed by the Portway, Saxon Street and Monks Way grid roads with the western boundary being the area to the west of the railway line known as Bradwell Abbey. It includes the old village of Bradwell surrounded by modern development, Heelands and Bradwell Common, Bradwell Abbey and the industrial area of Rooksley .
We aim to record the development and heritage of the area.
Bradwell Common – named because Common Lane, which ran from Bradwell village across the common to the 10th Century Secklow Mound meeting place at the rear of Milton Keynes Central Library building, crosses it – is home to the first of the Development Corporation’s three innovative housing exhibitions Homeworld, in 1981, Energy World and Future World.
Heelands was the location of a Roman farmstead, a Neolithic settlement and in Medieval times was worked using the ridge and furrow system.
The ancient track from Stanton Low to Loughton crosses both Heelands and Bradwell Common grid squares.
Buildings at Bradwell Abbey are home to Milton Keynes City Discovery Centre who hold a wealth of material about the development of the New City of Milton Keynes.
Our Parish contains a number of Listed Buildings and The Memorial Hall commemorates the men connected to the village who gave their lives in the Great War.
New Bradwell and Stantonbury were historically associated with what we now know as Bradwell Village and you might like to visit our friends the New Bradwell Heritage Group’s site.
If you’d like to get involved with making the heritage of our parish more widely available please get in touch.