Brimpsfield is a village in Gloucestershire, England.
Brimpsfield | |
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Centre of Brimpsfield village | |
Location within Gloucestershire | |
Population | 283 (2011)[1] |
OS grid reference | SO9312 |
Shire county | |
Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | Gloucester |
Postcode district | GL4 |
Police | Gloucestershire |
Fire | Gloucestershire |
Ambulance | South Western |
UK Parliament | |
The village is recorded in Domesday Book as Brimesfelde.[2] Brimpsfield Castle was built in the village during the Norman period. The manor of Brimpsfield was granted to Maurice de Berkeley in 1339 by King Edward III.[3]
The Church of St Michael was built in the 12th century. It is a grade I listed building.[4]
A fictional Brimpsfield is the home village of Peter and Abby Grant in the 1970s BBC TV series Survivors; it is shown to have a railway connection to London.
References
edit- ^ "Parish population 2011". 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.
- ^ "Church of St. Michael". National Heritage List for England. Historic England. Retrieved 30 October 2019.
External links
editMedia related to Brimpsfield at Wikimedia Commons
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