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Brimpsfield
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Centre of Brimpsfield village
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Brimpsfield
Location within Gloucestershire
Population310 (2021) [1]
OS grid reference SO9312
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Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Gloucester
Postcode district GL4
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51°48′N2°06′W / 51.80°N 02.10°W / 51.80; -02.10

Brimpsfield is a village in Gloucestershire, England.

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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.

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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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