Brimpsfield

Brimpsfield

Centre of Brimpsfield village
Brimpsfield
Brimpsfield shown within Gloucestershire
Population 283 (2011)[1]
OS grid reference SO9312
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Gloucester
Postcode district GL
Police Gloucestershire
Fire Gloucestershire
Ambulance South Western
EU Parliament South West England
UK Parliament

Brimpsfield is a village in Gloucestershire, England.

Livestock on Brimpsfield village green

The village is recorded in Domesday Book as "Brimesfelde".[2] Brimpsfield Castle was built in the village in the Norman period. The manor of Brimpsfield was granted to Maurice de Berkeley in 1339 by King Edward III.[3]

A fictional Brimpsfield was the village, home of Peter and Abby Grant, in the 1970s Survivors BBC TV series, with a railway connection to London.

References

  1. ↑ "Parish population 2011". Retrieved 23 March 2015.
  2. ↑ H. C. Darby; G. R. Versey (2008). Domesday Gazetteer. Domesday Geography of England. Cambridge University Press. pp. 148–149. ISBN 0-521-07858-X.
  3. ↑ Douglas Richardson; Kimball G. Everingham (2004). Plantagenet ancestry: a study in colonial and medieval families. Royal ancestry. Genealogical Publishing. p. 260. ISBN 0-8063-1750-7.

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