Brimpsfield
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| Brimpsfield | |
| Gloucestershire | |
|---|---|
 Centre of Brimpsfield village | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SO9312 |
| Location: | 51°48’-0"N, 2°6’0"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 283 (201)[1]) |
| Post town: | Gloucester |
| Postcode: | GL4 |
| Local Government | |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
The Cotswolds |
Brimpsfield is a village and parish in the Rapsgate hundred of Gloucestershire.
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
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Brimpsfield) |
- ↑ "Parish population 2011". https://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11121198&c=GL4+8LF&d=16&e=62&g=6427016&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=0&s=1427121996219&enc=1. Retrieved 23 March 2015.
- ↑ H. C. Darby; G. R. Versey (2008). Domesday Gazetteer. Domesday Geography of England. Cambridge University Press. pp. 148–149. ISBN 0-521-07858-X.
- ↑ 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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