Bramshott, Hampshire

Historical Description

Bramshott, a village and a parish in Hants. The village stands near the verge of the county, 1 mile NW of Liphook station on the L. & S.W.R., and 4 miles W of Haslemere, and has a post office under Liphook (S.O.), which is the money order and telegraph office. The parish includes. The hamlet of Liphook. Acreage, 6526; population, 1694. Many hundreds of Roman coins were found in 1741 in the bed of Woolmer pond, 1½ mile W of Liphook. The-living is a rectory in the diocese of Winchester; net value, £323 with residence. Patron. Queen's College, Oxford. The church is cruciform and Early English, has a central tower, partly Norman. It was very much restored and improved in 1872. There is a Roman Catholic chapel.

Administration

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

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

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Bramshott from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Bramshott (St. Mary))

Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Hampshire (County Southampton) is available to browse.

Maps

Online maps of Bramshott 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 Hampshire newspapers online:

• Portsmouth Evening News
• Hampshire Telegraph
• Hampshire Advertiser
• Hampshire Chronicle
• Aldershot Military Gazette

Visitations Heraldic

The Visitations of Hampshire, 1530, 1575, & 1622-34 is available to view on the Heraldry page.