Bramcote, Nottinghamshire
Historical Description
Bramcote, a village and a parish in Nottinghamshire. The village stands near the verge of the county and the Nottingham Canal and the Erewash river, 1½ mile from Stanton Gate station on the M.R., and 5 miles WSW of Nottingham, under which it has a post office; money order and telegraph office, Stapleford. Area of the parish, 1064 acres; population of the civil parish, 762; of the ecclesiastical, including Attenborough, 2020. Bramcote Hall and Bramcote Hills are chief residences. The Hemlock stone, 50 feet high, and estimated to weigh between 200 and 300 tons, stands on Brambcote Hill. Much of the surface is hill and moor. The majority of the inhabitants are engaged in the collieries and in agriculture. The living is annexed to the vicarage of Attenborough, in the diocese of Southwell. The church was built in 1861, is in the Decorated English style, and consists of nave, aisle, chancel, and vestry, with a tower and spire 130 feet high. The tower of the old church still stands in the old churchyard which is closed; it contains monuments of the Handleys. There are a Wesleyan chapel and several small charities.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Nottinghamshire | |
Poor Law union | Shardlow | |
Wapentake | Broxtow |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Bramcote from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Nottinghamshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Bramcote 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 Nottinghamshire newspapers online:
- Nottingham Evening Post
- Nottinghamshire Guardian
- Nottingham Review and General Advertiser for the Midland Counties
- Nottingham Gazette, and Political, Literary, Agricultural & Commercial Register for the Midland Counties
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitation of Nottinghamshire 1569 & 1614 is available on the Heraldry page.