In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Brampton Bryan like this:
BRAMPTON-BRYAN, a village and a township in the district of Knighton and county of Hereford; and a parish partly also in the county of Radnor. The village stands on the river Teme, 3 miles ESE of Bucknell r. station, and 10 W by S of Ludlow; and has a post office, of the name of Brampton-Bryan, Herefordshire, and a fair on 21 and 22 June. ...
It dates from remote times; and had a castle built by the Norman Bryan de Brampton, held long by the Harleys, and besieged and destroyed by the royalists in the civil war.-The township includes the village. Pop., 158. Houses, 29.—The parish contains also the townships of Boresford and Pedwardine, and the lordship-of Stanage. Acres, 5,314. Real property, with Buckton and Coxall, £6,148. Pop., 430. Houses, 83. The property is divided among a few. Brampton Park is the seat of the Earl of Oxford. Coxwell Knoll has vestiges of a camp which was occupied by Caractacus prior to his defeat by O. Scapula. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Hereford. Value, £300.* Patron, Lady Langdale. The church was injured in the civil war, and had long a ruined tower, but was beautified in 1859 by the erection of a neat cupola; and it contains the monuments of Lord Treasurer Harley, the founder of the Harleian Library Charities, £19.
Brampton Bryan through time
Brampton Bryan is now part of Herefordshire district. Click here for graphs and data of how Herefordshire has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Brampton Bryan itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Brampton Bryan in Herefordshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/5312
Date accessed: 20th April 2024
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