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Brackenbury Village is a residential district of west London between the Goldhawk Road, King Street, Hammersmith Grove and Ravenscourt Park. It is named after Brackenbury Road in which there is a small parade of shops which form the heart of the estateagent styled village term was first used in early 80s to market houses, at the time the term did not even reach as far as Dudley rd. This includes Brackenburys (Delicatessen & Coffee Shop), The Brackenbury Restaurant, Sisi's (Hardware & Ironmonger), Hepsibah (Gallery & Hatmaker) and Stenton's (Traditional family butchers). The name of the area came from estate agent descriptions,^[1]^[2] with houses in the area selling for over a million being seen regularly.^[1] The area has one of Britain's best all-girl schools, Godolphin and Latymer School and the highly publicised Toby Young's West London Free School and West London Free School Primary.

Famous residents include Jayne Hepsibah,^[3] Rahul Raswant,^[4] Jonathan Powell^[5] and Mary Nightingale.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Shockwaves in affluent enclave". Evening Standard. 15 March 2007. Retrieved 1 August 2010. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
^ "Evans's odyssey". The Independent. 2 March 1996. Retrieved 1 August 2010. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
^ Mary Wilson (12 April 2007), "Wherever I lay my hat... that's my home", Daily Telegraph
^ "Minutes of the 2006 Annual General Meeting" (pdf). Brackenbury Residents Association. 20 July 2006. Retrieved 27 July 2010.^{[permanent dead link‍]}
^ "The rise of postcode snobbery; Londoners obsessed with what an address says about them lie about where they live". Evening Standard. 3 May 2006. Retrieved 1 August 2010. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)

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[enclave-1] "Shockwaves in affluent enclave". Evening Standard. 15 March 2007. Retrieved 1 August 2010. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)

[evans-2] "Evans's odyssey". The Independent. 2 March 1996. Retrieved 1 August 2010. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)

[3] Mary Wilson (12 April 2007), "Wherever I lay my hat... that's my home", Daily Telegraph

[4] "Minutes of the 2006 Annual General Meeting" (pdf). Brackenbury Residents Association. 20 July 2006. Retrieved 27 July 2010.^{[permanent dead link‍]}

[snobbery-5] "The rise of postcode snobbery; Londoners obsessed with what an address says about them lie about where they live". Evening Standard. 3 May 2006. Retrieved 1 August 2010. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)

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-'''Brackenbury Village''' is a residential district of west [[London]] between the Goldhawk Road, [[King Street, London|King Street]], Hammersmith Grove and [[Ravenscourt Park]]. It is named after Brackenbury Road in which there is a small parade of shops which form the heart of the self-styled village. This includes Brackenburys (Delicatessen & Coffee Shop), The Brackenbury Restaurant, Sisi's (Hardware & Ironmonger), Hepsibah (Gallery & Hatmaker) and Stenton's (Traditional family butchers). The name of the area came from [[estate agent]] descriptions,<ref name=enclave>{{cite web| url = http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-3742612.html | title = Shockwaves in affluent enclave | accessdate = 2010-08-01 | date = 2007-03-15 | publisher = ''[[Evening Standard]]''}}</ref><ref name=evans>{{cite web| url = http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-4762318.html | title = Evans's odyssey | accessdate = 2010-08-01 | date = 1996-03-02 | publisher = ''[[The Independent]]''}}</ref> with houses in the area selling for over a million being seen regularly.<ref name=enclave/> The area has one of Britain's best all-girl schools, [[Godolphin and Latymer School]] and the highly publicised Toby Young's West London Free School and West London Free School Primary.
+'''Brackenbury Village''' is a residential district of west [[London]] between the Goldhawk Road, [[King Street, London|King Street]], Hammersmith Grove and [[Ravenscourt Park]]. It is named after Brackenbury Road in which there is a small parade of shops which form the heart of the estateagent styled village term was first used in early 80s to market houses, at the time the term did not even reach as far as Dudley rd. This includes Brackenburys (Delicatessen & Coffee Shop), The Brackenbury Restaurant, Sisi's (Hardware & Ironmonger), Hepsibah (Gallery & Hatmaker) and Stenton's (Traditional family butchers). The name of the area came from [[estate agent]] descriptions,<ref name=enclave>{{cite web| url = http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-3742612.html | title = Shockwaves in affluent enclave | accessdate = 2010-08-01 | date = 2007-03-15 | publisher = ''[[Evening Standard]]''}}</ref><ref name=evans>{{cite web| url = http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-4762318.html | title = Evans's odyssey | accessdate = 2010-08-01 | date = 1996-03-02 | publisher = ''[[The Independent]]''}}</ref> with houses in the area selling for over a million being seen regularly.<ref name=enclave/> The area has one of Britain's best all-girl schools, [[Godolphin and Latymer School]] and the highly publicised Toby Young's West London Free School and West London Free School Primary.
 Famous residents include [[Jayne Hepsibah]],<ref>{{citation |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/3357551/Wherever-I-lay-my-hat...-thats-my-home.html |title=Wherever I lay my hat... that's my home |journal=Daily Telegraph |author=Mary Wilson |date=12 Apr 2007}}</ref> [[Rahul Raswant]],<ref>{{Cite web | title = Minutes of the 2006 Annual General Meeting | publisher = Brackenbury Residents Association | date = 2006-07-20 | url = http://www.studley.co.uk/brackenbury/newsletters/AGM_Minutes_2006.pdf | format = pdf | accessdate = 2010-07-27 }}{{dead link|date=July 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> [[Jonathan Powell (aide)|Jonathan Powell]]<ref name=snobbery>{{cite web| url = http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-145301584.html | title = The rise of postcode snobbery; Londoners obsessed with what an address says about them lie about where they live | accessdate = 2010-08-01 | date = 2006-05-03 | publisher = ''[[Evening Standard]]''}}</ref> and [[Mary Nightingale]].<ref name=enclave/>