Bracknell is a small rural town in northern Tasmania, Australia and was established to serve the needs of the forestry industry but is now a centre for the local farming community.

Bracknell Township in the Parish of Adelphi and the County of Westmorland was settled between two 500 acre sections of land granted by the Crown to a Mr. Paul Minnett between the years of 1825 and 1826.

One of the 500 acre blocks of land to the north, which is the Oaks Road side of Bracknell was purchased in 1838 by the Field family.

Bracknell’s boundary to the East is the Liffey River (formally known as the Pennyroyal Creek).

The first sale of blocks at Bracknell was surveyed from a 380 acres allotment belonging to the Church of England, the area was known as the Adelphi Glebe.

In 1874 a writer doing a agricultural tour of the district writes of Bracknell being a village just starting to take off. He called it an "embryo" township, with a two roomed school with good attendance, a hotel, two or three stores, post office, a place of worship and a Good Templar Lodge. The hawthorn hedges that thrive in the area give an English appearance to the village.

Bracknell was designated a new town in 1949, in the aftermath of the Second World War and was made a civil parish in its own right in 1955.

At the 2001 census, Bracknell had a population of 358

Today its economy is based on mostly dairy, livestock, and poppy production for the pharmaceutical industry. All the streets in Bracknell are female names.