Bradwell is an ancient village in Buckinghamshire, England. 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.[

St Lawrence's Church is a Grade II*-listed building, dating from the 13th century, and receiving its first vicar in 1223. It is believed to contain the oldest change ringing bells still in use, which were cast in 1297 by Michael de Wymbish of London.

There were three Mapley families in Bradwell, according to the Censuses 1860's-1870's. Both George and John Mapley were brick layers from Newport Pagnell, and settled there as neighbours on the High Street with their families. Mary Mapley lived in the Widower Smith household as housekeeper in the 1880's, with her 2 daughters.

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1st. Bradwell Generation

George Mapley (1816 - ) m. Sarah Ann ? (1822 - ) in

John Mapley (1821 - ) m. Elizabeth Hart (1824 - 9/1871) in
He remarried and returned to Newport Pagnell after his wife died.

• John Mapley (1854 - )
• Elizabeth Mapley (1856 - )
• Frederick Mapley (1859 - )