Braintree

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  Braintree Citizen (guest)

  Braintree is medium sized town. It's features include a Freeport Shopping Centre and Cineworld Cinema to the southeast of the town. To the north is the village of Bocking. Bocking residents are considered of lower intelligence to Braintree, the same goes for the surrounding villages, these include Panfield, Finchingfield, Wethersfield and many small sub-villages that do not warrant names, one of which is known to the natives as 'Shalford', or so the story goes. If you look really hard at the aerial picture of Braintree you may see the face of Jesus.

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  cr3ation (guest)

  Braintree is a town of about 42,393 people and the principal settlement of the Braintree district of Essex in the East of England. It is ten miles north-east of Chelmsford and fifteen miles west of Colchester on the River Blackwater, A120 road and a branch of the Great Eastern Main Line. Braintree has grown contiguous with several surrounding settlements: Braintree proper lies to the south of Stane Street, and Bocking lies to the north. The two together can be referred to as Braintree and Bocking, although most people just lump them together as "Braintree". Braintree is twinned with the French town of Pierrefitte-sur-Seine. The town of Braintree, Massachusetts, United States, was named after Braintree, Essex in 1640. Braintree lies about 50 metres above sea level[1]. Essex is rather flat on the whole, and the Braintree area is no exception; however, there is a general downward trend in the height of the ground from the northwest towards the coast to the southeast. Two rivers flow through Braintree in this direction. Pod's Brook approaches the western side of the town, forming a natural boundary between Braintree and the neighbouring village of Rayne about two miles (three kilometres) to the west. Pod's Brook becomes the River Brain as it passes under the Roman road, before running through the southern part of Braintree. The River Pant (or Blackwater) runs roughly parallel to it, through the north of Bocking, and away to the east of the town. The Brain eventually flows into the Blackwater several miles away, near Witham.

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