Place details
Place nameBraintree
Other namesBranchetreu
CountryUnited Kingdom
Latitude51.883
Longitude0.533
SourceThesaurus of Geographic Names
Overview
Now part of Bocking; 19th-century center of Courtauld's rayon industry; Nicholas Udell, vicar of Braintree (1537), wrote the first English comedy, "Ralph Roister Doister."