Brackley
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Brackley is a market town and civil parish in the West Northamptonshire unitary authority area of Northamptonshire, England. It lies on the borders with Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire, east-south-east of Banbury, north-north-east of Oxford and south-west of Northampton. Historically a market town based on the wool and lace trade, it was built on the intersecting trade routes between London, Birmingham, the Midlands, Cambridge and Oxford. Brackley is close to Silverstone and home to the Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team. In 2021, the parish had a population of 16,195.
Key facts
- UK place.official_name
- Brackley
- UK place.label_position
- top
- UK place.population
- 16,195
- UK place.population_ref
- (2021 Census)
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SP5837
- UK place.london_distance
- SE
- UK place.civil_parish
- Brackley
- UK place.unitary_england
- West Northamptonshire
- UK place.lieutenancy_england
- Northamptonshire
- UK place.region
- East Midlands
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.post_town
- BRACKLEY
- UK place.postcode_area
- NN
- UK place.postcode_district
- NN13
- UK place.dial_code
- 01280
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- South Northamptonshire
- UK place.website
- Brackley Town Council
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
23 sectionsContents
- History
- Brackley Poor Law Union
- Notable buildings
- Castle
- Parish church
- Medieval hospitals
- Secular buildings
- Transport
- Roads
- Buses
- Railways
- Industry
- Schools
- Media
- Morris dancing
- Sport and leisure
- Football
- Motorsport
- Other clubs and facilities
- Twinned towns
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Brackley is a market town and civil parish in the West Northamptonshire unitary authority area of Northamptonshire, England. It lies on the borders with Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire, east-south-east of Banbury, north-north-east of Oxford and south-west of Northampton. Historically a market town based on the wool and lace trade, it was built on the intersecting trade routes between London, Birmingham, the Midlands, Cambridge and Oxford. Brackley is close to Silverstone and home to the Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team. In 2021, the parish had a population of 16,195.
==History== The place-name 'Brackley' is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it appears as Brachelai. It appears as Brackelea in 1173 and as Brackeley in the Pipe Rolls in 1230. The name means 'Bracca's glade or clearing'. Brackley was held in 1086 by Earl Alberic, after which it passed to the Earl of Leicester, and to the families of De Quincy and Roland.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Brackley” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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