Brampton Bryan, Herefordshire
Historical Description
Brampton-Bryan or Brampton-Brian, a village and a township in Herefordshire, and a parish partly also in Radnorshire. The village stands on the river Teme, 1½ mile ESE of Bucknell station on the L. &N.W.R., 2¼ miles W by S of Leintwardine, and 10 W by S of Ludlow, and has a post and money order office (R.S.O.); telegraph office, Leintwardine. It has a fair on 21st June for sheep, and on 22nd June for horses and cattle. It dates from remote times, and had a castle built by the Norman Bryan de Brampton, held long by the Harleys, and besieged and destroyed by the Royalists in the Civil War. Some ruins of the walls remain. The township includes the village. Acreage, 3001; population, 307; of ecclesiastical parish, 464. The parish contains also the townships of Boresford and Pedwardine and the lordship of Stanage. Brampton Hall is a seat of the Harley family; the park is nearly 6 miles in circumference. Coxwall Knoll has vestiges of a camp which was occupied by Caractacus prior to his defeat here by Ostorius Scapula. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Hereford; net value, £282 with residence. The church was destroyed in the Civil War, and was rebuilt by Sir Robert Harley, is a plain edifice, and it contains the tomb of Lord Treasurer Harley, the first Earl of Oxford, and the founder of the Harleian Library.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Herefordshire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Brampton-Bryan St. Barnabas | |
Hundred | Knighton | |
Poor Law union | Knighton | |
Registration district | Knighton | 1837 - 1933 |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Brampton Bryan from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Brampton-Bryan (St. Barnabas))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Herefordshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Brampton Bryan are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Herefordshire newspapers online: