Brandon and Bretford is a

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in the

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England England is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is located on the island of Great Britain, of which it covers about 62%, and List of islands of England, more than 100 smaller adjacent islands. It ...

. It contains the village of Brandon and the smaller

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Bretford Bretford is a hamlet in the Borough of Rugby, Warwickshire, England. It is part of the civil parish of Brandon and Bretford. Location It is situated about 5 miles (8 km) west of Rugby and east-southeast of Coventry, at a junction of the A42 ...

. Both are within 1½ miles of each other, along the

A428 road The A428 road is a major road in central and eastern England. It runs between the cities of Coventry and Cambridge by way of the county towns of Northampton and Bedford. Together with the A421, (and the A43, M40 and the A34), the eastern s ...

. In the 2001 Census the parish had a population of 588, increasing to 643 at the 2011 Census, and again to 675 at the 2021 census. The parish is long and narrow in shape, and extends from Bretford to the border with

Coventry Coventry ( or rarely ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands (county), West Midlands county, in England, on the River Sherbourne. Coventry had been a large settlement for centurie ...

, it covers Brandon Marsh as well as

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. The River Avon crosses the parish, as does the

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, which crosses the Avon on a viaduct. west of this, railway station operated here until 1960. The area was historically part of the

parish A parish is a territorial entity in many Christianity, Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest#Christianity, priest, often termed a parish pries ...

Wolston Wolston is a village and civil parish in the Rugby borough of Warwickshire, England. The village is located approximately midway between Rugby and Coventry, with a population of 2,692 at the 2021 census. It is close to the A45 road and the R ...

. Brandon and Bretford became a separate civil parish in 1866.

References

External links

Brandon & Bretford Parish Council
Civil parishes in Warwickshire {{Warwickshire-geo-stub