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2 unusual facts about Bradwell


No. 287 Squadron RAF

After spending a large period of time in Croydon, No. 287 Squadron moved to RAF North Weald in 1944, RAF Bradwell Bay in 1945 and RAF West Malling in September 1945.

No. 611 Squadron RAF

Long-range escort missions began to be flown from RAF Bradwell Bay, Essex, from late August 1944, until No. 611 moved to RAF Skeabrae in Orkney on 3 October.


Æthelwold of East Anglia

Cedd built monasteries at Tilbury in the south and at Ythancæster, where there was an old Roman fort, at what is now Bradwell-on-Sea, in north-east Essex.

Crouch Valley Line

The line was also used to take waste and fuel rods from Bradwell's decommissioned nuclear power station to the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing facility in Cumbria, but this service has now ceased.

Novelty Theatre

The first theatre on the site was built to designs by Thomas Verity with decorations by E. W. Bradwell, and opened on 9 December 1882.

Perry Green

Perry Green, Essex, a hamlet near the village of Bradwell Juxta Coggeshall

Shenley Brook End

The brook rises near the site of Snelshall Priory, flows through Furzton where it is joined by a tributary from Emerson Valley, becomes the "tear-drop lakes" in Loughton and flows into the River Great Ouse at New Bradwell.


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