Bratton Fleming

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Bratton Fleming is a large village near Barnstaple , in Devon, England.

The village runs along one street which climbs steadily up the foothills of Exmoor. The Flemings had their seat at Chimwell, now a farmhouse called Chumhill, which Risdon said was "one of the largest demesnes of this shire." Benton and Haxton were small Domesday manors. The great jurist Henry de Bracton was probably born at Bratton

St Peters Church was rebuilt on the site af a much older building, in 1861.

The village was once served by a railway station, supposedly 'the most beautiful in England', on the narrow gauge Lynton & Barnstaple Railway, the trackbed of which runs close to the village.

[edit] See also

• Railway Workshops in Bratton Fleming:
  • Exmoor Steam Railway
  • Lynton and Barnstaple Railway

[edit] Reference

Devon by W.G.Hoskins (1954) et. al.