Country: | England |
Static Image: | Bradnop_Church_-_geograph.org.uk_-_224611.jpg |
Static Image Width: | 240px |
Static Image Caption: | Bradnop Church |
Coordinates: | 53.09°N -1.98°W |
Official Name: | Bradnop |
Population: | 310 |
Population Ref: | (2011)[1] |
Shire District: | Staffordshire Moorlands |
Shire County: | Staffordshire |
Region: | West Midlands |
Constituency Westminster: | Staffordshire Moorlands |
Post Town: | Leek |
Postcode District: | ST13 |
Postcode Area: | ST |
Os Grid Reference: | SK0155 |
Bradnop is a village in Staffordshire, England, located just a few miles to the southeast of the market town of Leek. The name Bradnop was first recorded in 1197, and gets its name from the Old English words "bradan", meaning broad, and "hop", meaning enclosed valley. Historically Bradnop was a township of the parish of Leek, and later became a civil parish in its own right, with an area 3,568 acres (1,444 hectares).[2]
In the past, Bradnop was once served by a railway station (on the Cauldon Lowe branch, though however trains on the nearby preserved Churnet Valley Railway pass by, but only to as far as Ipstones. Also at Bradnop, lies the 36yd long Bradnop Tunnel also the branch and possibly the shortest on the line as well as the CVR itself.