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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Brockhampton like this:
BROCKHAMPTON, a township or a parish, and a subdistrict, in Bromyard district, Hereford. The township lies 2 miles NE of Bromyard, and 9 NNW of Malvern Link r. station; is sometimes called Norton-with-Brockhampton; and has been regarded variously as a township-chapelry of Bromyard parish and as itself a separate parish. ...
Post Town, Bromyard, under Worcester. Acres, 1,410. Pop., 623. Houses, 129. The place contains several good residences suburban to Bromyard. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Bromyard, in the diocese of Hereford.-The subdistrict contains part of two parishes, eleven entire parishes, two of them electorally in Worcester, and an extra-parochial tract. Acres, 21,812. Pop., 3,716. Houses, 761.
Brockhampton is now part of HEREFORDSHIRE Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how HEREFORDSHIRE has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Brockhampton itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Brockhampton in Herefordshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/2966
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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