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History of New BradwellOriginally a farmhouse, New Bradwell became 116 houses, a church and the “Railway Tavern” built in 1859 by the shareholders of the railway company on the sixteen acres that they had bought by the Newport/Wolverton road.The new town spread towards Wolverton and the County Arms was built in 1879. While the foundations were being built, workmen uncovered sixteen bronze age axeheads, now in the County Museum. New Bradwell became established as a dormitory town for the Railway Works in Wolverton. Extensive building had taken place in Wolverton itself but more was needed. The streets of terraced houses echo the development in the North of England in Lancashire and Yorkshire where small back to back houses were built clustered around the mills manufacturing cotton and wool. Workers lived on the doorstep of the mill in a house owned by the mill owner. This was repeated in Wolverton and New Bradwell hence the small terraced houses lived in originally by workers from “The Works”. Workers were brought from other centres of railway construction such as Crewe and there are still elderly people who talk with a northern accent living in New Bradwell. There is a distinctive flavour which becomes apparent when you live here for any length of time. Perhaps because New Bradwell is small, and more like a village, the feeling of community is strong. Up to 2001, there was not a Parish Council but it was formed alongside nine other new parishes in Milton Keynes and has increased in activity every year since. |
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