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Brimpsfield

Brimpsfield
Centre of Brimpsfield village
Brimpsfield is located in Gloucestershire
Brimpsfield
Brimpsfield
Location within Gloucestershire
Population310 (2021)[1]
OS grid referenceSO9312
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townGloucester
Postcode districtGL4
PoliceGloucestershire
FireGloucestershire
AmbulanceSouth Western
UK Parliament
List of places
UK
England
Gloucestershire
51°48′N 2°06′W / 51.80°N 02.10°W / 51.80; -02.10

Brimpsfield is a village in Gloucestershire, England.

Livestock on Brimpsfield village green

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. ^ "Parish population 2021". Retrieved 4 July 2024.
  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. ^ 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. ^ "Church of St. Michael". National Heritage List for England. Historic England. Retrieved 30 October 2019.

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