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Bradninch
Bradninch is a small town and former manor in Devon, England, lying about three miles south of Cullompton. Much of the surrounding farmland belongs to the Duchy of Cornwall. There is an electoral ward with the same name. At the 2011 Census the ward population was 2,041.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ward population 2011 )〕
In 2012, in research of 2,400 postcodes in England and Wales which took into account 60 separate factors of interest to young families, Bradninch was found to be the fifteenth most family friendly location in the country.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title= Family Friendly Hotspots 2012 )〕
The town is twinned with Landunvez in Brittany.
==Toponymy==
The place-name 'Bradninch' is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it appears as 'Bradenese'; the name is thought to mean 'broad oak' 〔Eilert Ekwall, ''Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names'', p. 58.〕 or 'broad ash'.〔Illustrations of Devon's History, R.R. Sellman, p23〕 Seventy-nine different spellings of the name of the town have been recorded.〔Croslegh, Charles - Bradninch, being a short historical sketch of the honor, the manor, the borough, and liberties, and the parish, p343〕
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