Brimpsfield

Brimpsfield

Brimpsfield

Human settlement in England

Brimpsfield is a village in Gloucestershire, England.

Livestock on Brimpsfield village green

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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

  1. [1]
    "Parish population 2011". Retrieved 23 March 2015.
  2. [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. [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.
  4. [4]
    "Church of St. Michael". National Heritage List for England. Historic England. Retrieved 30 October 2019.

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