BRAMHALL, or Bramall, a township in Stockport parish, Cheshire; on the Manchester and Macclesfield railway, 2½ miles S of Stockport. It has a station on the railway. Acres, 3,250. Real property, £7,819. Pop., 1,615. Houses, 331-Bramhall House, now the seat of the Davenports, belonged formerly to the Bramhales; is a fine timbered edifice of the 16th century, partly modernized; and contains portraits of Sir A. Legh, and many ancient interesting objects. There are a cotton mill, a silk mill, a police station, and Independent and wesleyan chapels.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))