Brimpsfield
| Brimpsfield | |
|---|---|
 Centre of Brimpsfield village | |
  Brimpsfield Location within Gloucestershire | |
| Population | 310 (2021)[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 | |
Brimpsfield is a village in Gloucestershire, England.
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 2021". Retrieved 4 July 2024.
- ^ 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
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