Braywick, Berkshire
village in Berkshire, United Kingdom
Braywick (sometimes written as Bray Wick) is a linear suburb south of the town of Maidenhead in Berkshire, England. It was formerly part of the parish of Bray.
Geography
Natural conservation areas
Braywick Park is a park and local nature reserve on the west side of the York Stream. Adjoining this, on the east side of the stream, is a site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) called Bray Meadows.
Notable people
Arthur Dillon (1750–1794) was an Irish Catholic aristocrat born in England who inherited the ownership of a regiment that served France under the Ancien Régime during the American Revolutionary War and then the French First Republic during the War of the First Coalition.
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