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Brentwood

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Brentwood, city and district, England

Brentwood, city (1991 pop. 51,212) and district, Essex, SE England. Brentwood is mainly residential but produces some agricultural equipment, film, and prefabricated concrete. The city was located on an important coach road from London to Colchester. The 15th-century White Hart Inn still stands. Brentwood School was founded in the 16th cent.

Brentwood, towns, United States

Brentwood.

1 Uninc. town (1990 pop. 45,218), Suffolk co., SE N.Y., on central Long Island, in the town of Islip. It is mainly residential, with various light industries. Josiah Warren Warren, Josiah, 1798–1874, American reformer and anarchist, b. Boston. An early follower of Robert Owen , he soon rejected Owen's political socialism, advocating instead anarchy based on "the sovereignty of the individual.
..... Click the link for more information.  led (1851) an experiment in communal living in Brentwood. A campus of the New York Institute of Technology is there.

2 Borough (1990 pop. 10,823), Allegheny co., W Pa., a residential suburb of Pittsburgh; inc. 1915.

Brentwood
a residential town in SE England, in SW Essex near London. Pop.: 47 593 (2001)


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"If you mean to insinuate--" Brentwood began hotly.
The Strength of the Strong by London, Jack View in context
Miss Brentwood thinks I am as mild as a kitten and as good-natured and stolid as the family cow.
The Iron Heel by London, Jack View in context
Paul's, jingling rapidly by the strangers' entry of Fleet-Market, which, with Exeter 'Change, has now departed to the world of shadows--how they passed the White Bear in Piccadilly, and saw the dew rising up from the market-gardens of Knightsbridge--how Turnhamgreen, Brentwood, Bagshot, were passed--need not be told here.
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