Bradwell, Milton Keynes

Bradwell is an ancient village and modern district in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. It has also given its name to a modern civil parish that is part of the Borough of Milton Keynes. The village was adjacent to Bradwell Abbey, a Benedictine priory, founded in 1155 and dissolved in about 1540, but the abbey and its immediate environs were always a separate ecclesiastical parish.
The village name is an Old English language word and means "broad spring". In the Domesday Book of 1086 the village was recorded as "Bradewelle".
There is an YHA youth hostel in the village (near the church and Bradwell Bury), at ..
Civil Parish.
The parish of Bradwell consists of the Bradwell village grid square, along with Bradwell Abbey, Heelands, Rooksley, and Bradwell Common. The parish had a population of 9,657 according to the 2011 census. The parish is bounded by the railway line and the A5 to the west, Monks Way to the north, Portway to the east, and the Dansteed Way to the south.
Bradwell Bury.
Bradwell Bury opposite the Youth Hostel is a moated site and the remains of an associated manor house which once formed part of a more extensive monument: it is Scheduled Ancient Monument (number 1011298).
Sport and Leisure.
Bradwell has a Non-League football team Old Bradwell United F.C. who play at Abbey Road, where there is a large sports field with a cricket pitch and several football pitches. The Old Bradwell Tennis Club is also affiliated to the Bradwell Sports and Social Club which has the use of these facilities. 
Bradwell Bowls Club enters competitive teams in the local league.
Adjoining the sports field is the Bradwell Conservation Area, which is centered on St Lawrence's Field and is administered by the parish council as a nature conservation area.
On Vicarage Road is the Bradwell Memorial Hall, built as the village's war memorial after World War I.
On Primrose Road is King George's Field in memorial to King George V with a children's play area.
Rooksley, at the western edge of the parish, has an important Karting track (not in Bradwell parish).
Demography.
The demography of Bradwell electoral ward is given at .