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Braughing, Hertfordshire

Historical Description

Braughing, an ancient town and a parish which gives its name to a hundred in Herts. The town stands on the river Quin, adjacent to Ermine Street, and to the Buntingford branch of the G.E.R., 3½ miles SE by S of Buntingford, and has a station on the railway, and a post office under Ware; money order and telegraph office, Puckeridge. It was a domain of the Saxon kings; was known to the Saxons as Brooking, and to the Normans as Brackinges; and was long a place of considerable importance, and a market-town. Its fair on Whit Monday and Tuesday lasted until 1889, when it was abolished by order of the Home Secretary at the request of the principal residents. Vestiges of the Roman Ad-Fines are at Campwood in its neighbourhood. The parish includes also part of the village of Puckeridge. Acreage, 4368; population, 974. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of St Albans; net value, £190 with residence. The church, a building of flint in the Lancet and Perpendicular styles, contains some interesting tombs and monuments, and was handsomely restored in 1888 at a cost of £2250. There are also Congregational and Wesleyan chapels. Hamels Park is a chief residence.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyHertfordshire 
Ecclesiastical parishBraughin St. Mary 
HundredBraughin 
Poor Law unionBishop-Stortford 

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.


Church Records

Findmypast, in association with the Hertfordshire Archives & Local Studies have the Baptisms, Banns, Marriages, and Burials online for Braughing


Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Braughing from the following:


Land and Property

A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Hertfordshire is online.


Maps

Online maps of Braughing are available from a number of sites:


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Hertfordshire newspapers online:


Visitations Heraldic

The Visitations of Hertfordshire, 1572 and 1634. Edited by Walter C. Metcalfe, F.S.A. is available on the Heraldry page.

DistrictEast Hertfordshire
CountyHertfordshire
RegionEastern
CountryEngland
Postal districtSG11
Post TownWare

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