Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BRAMLEY

BRAMLEY, a parish in Hambledon district, Surrey; on the Guildford and Horsham railway, 3 miles S by E of Guildford. It has a post office under Guildford, and a r. station. Acres, 4,008. Real property, £5,903. Pop., 1,129. Houses, 219. The property is much subdivided. The manor-house is an old edifice, with picturesque gables, now occupied by a farmer. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £160. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is partly Norman; and has a good early English chancel.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Bramley Parish       Hambledon Poor Law Union/Registration District       Surrey Ancient County
Place: Bramley

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