Brimpsfield
| Brimpsfield | |
 Centre of Brimpsfield village |
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  Brimpsfield |
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| Population | 283 (2011)[1] |
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| OS grid reference | SO9312 |
| Shire county | Gloucestershire |
| Region | South West |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Gloucester |
| Postcode district | GL |
| Police | Gloucestershire |
| Fire | Gloucestershire |
| Ambulance | South Western |
| EU Parliament | South West England |
| UK Parliament | The Cotswolds |
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Coordinates: 51°48′N 2°06′W / 51.80°N 02.10°W
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 in the Norman period. The manor of Brimpsfield was granted to Maurice de Berkeley in 1339 by King Edward III.[3]
A fictional Brimpsfield was the village, home of Peter and Abby Grant, in the 1970s Survivors BBC TV series, with a railway connection to London.
References
- ↑ "Parish population 2011.Retrieved 23 March 2015".
- ↑ 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.
External links
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