# Birdbrook

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Village and civil parish in Essex, England

Human settlement in England

Birdbrook St. Augustine of Canterbury church, Birdbrook Birdbrook Location within Essex Population 379 (Parish, 2021)[1] OS grid reference TL707412 Civil parish Birdbrook District Braintree Shire county Essex Region East Country England Sovereign state United Kingdom Post town HALSTEAD Postcode district CO9 Dialling code 01440 Police Essex Fire Essex Ambulance East of England UK Parliament Braintree List of places UK England Essex 52°02′36″N 0°29′16″E / 52.0432°N 0.4878°E / 52.0432; 0.4878

**Birdbrook** is a village and [civil parish](/source/Civil_parish) in [Essex](/source/Essex), England. It is located approximately 6 km (3.7 mi) southeast of [Haverhill, Suffolk](/source/Haverhill%2C_Suffolk) and is 34 km (21 miles) north from the county town of [Chelmsford](/source/Chelmsford). The village is in the district of [Braintree](/source/Braintree_(district)) and in the parliamentary constituency of [Saffron Walden](/source/Saffron_Walden_(UK_Parliament_constituency)). It is 93 metres above sea level. At the [2021 census](/source/2021%E2%80%932022_United_Kingdom_censuses) the parish had a population of 379.

There is a public house called the Plough, and the parish church is dedicated to St Augustine of Canterbury.

Nearby [Moyns Park](/source/Moyns_Park), a Grade I listed [Elizabethan](/source/Elizabethan) [country house](/source/English_country_houses), is said to have been where [Ian Fleming](/source/Ian_Fleming) put the finishing touches on his novel *[From Russia, with Love](/source/From_Russia%2C_with_Love_(novel))*.

Another listed building in the parish is [Baythorne Hall](/source/Baythorne_Hall).

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2021census_1-0)** ["2021 Census Parish Profiles"](https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/sources/census_2021_pp). *NOMIS*. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 31 March 2025. (To get individual parish data, use the query function on table PP002.)

[http://www.birdbrook.net](http://www.birdbrook.net) A Page Dedicated to the Idle of Birdbrook

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