Brampton Abbotts

Brampton Abbotts

Farmland south of Brampton Abbotts
Brampton Abbotts

 Brampton Abbotts shown within Herefordshire
Population 322 (Parish)[1]
OS grid reference SO601264
Unitary authority Herefordshire
Ceremonial county Herefordshire
Region West Midlands
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town ROSS-ON-WYE
Postcode district HR9
Dialling code 01989
Police West Mercia
Fire Hereford and Worcester
Ambulance West Midlands
EU Parliament West Midlands
UK Parliament North Herefordshire
List of places: UK • England • Herefordshire

Brampton Abbotts is a village and civil parish in Herefordshire, England. It is located 2 km north of Ross-on-Wye and 16 km south east of Hereford. The village lies near the western terminus of M50 motorway.[2]

The parish had a population of 322 in the 2001 UK Census[1] and is grouped with Foy to form Brampton Abbots & Foy Group Parish Council for administrative purposes.[3]

The parish church, dedicated to St Michael, is Norman. The font has an octagonal bowl with quatrefoiled panels.[4]

The place name Brampton means 'Broom settlement'. Abbotts is a reference to the abbot of St Peter's Abbey, Gloucester which held it in the late 11th century at the time of the Domesday survey.[5]

In the south of the parish, at the boundary with Weston under Penyard and Ross Rural parishes, is the hamlet of Rudhall. Rudhall House is a Grade I listed 14th century manor house. The core of the original building is timber framed on a sandstone plinth. The house was extended in the 16th and 17th centuries and restored in the 19th century but the interior retains many period features.[6][4]

References

  1. ^ a b "Population of Herefordshire Parishes, 2001" (pdf). Herefordshire Council. 2004. http://www.herefordshire.gov.uk/docs/research/2001_parish_populations.pdf. Retrieved 2010-12-04. 
  2. ^ Hereford & Ross-on-Wye (Explorer Map 189) (A2 ed.), Ordnance Survey, 2009, ISBN 978-0319240977 
  3. ^ "List of Parish Councils and Contacts" (xls). Herefordshire Council. http://www.herefordshire.gov.uk/docs/Copy_of_Parish_Councils_MASTER_for_Web_April_14th.xls. Retrieved 2011-04-30. 
  4. ^ a b Pevsner, Nikolaus (1963). The Buildings of England - Herefordshire. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. pp. 81. ISBN 978-0300096095. 
  5. ^ "Landscape Origins of the Wye Valley parishes - Brampton Abbotts". Archenfield Archaeology. 2008. http://www.bosci.net/LOWV/Village%20pages%20-%20Brampton%20Abbotts.htm. Retrieved 2011-04-30. 
  6. ^ "British Listed Buildings - Rudhall House". British Listed Buildings. http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-155460-rudhall-house-ross-rural. Retrieved 2011-04-30. 

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