Brampton en le Morthen, West Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Brampton-en-le-Morthen, a township in Ulley parish, W.R. Yorkshire, near the North Midland Railway, 5 miles SE of Rotherham, which is the post office; money order and telegraph office, Aston. Acreage, 1122; population, 106.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Yorkshire | |
Civil parish | Treeton | |
Poor Law union | Rotherham | |
Riding | West | |
Wapentake | Strafforth and Tickhill |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Brampton en le Morthen from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Brampton-en-le-Morthen)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for the West Riding of Yorkshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Brampton en le Morthen 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 West Riding newspapers online: