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Brimpsfield

Brimpsfield is a village in Gloucestershire, England.

Livestock on Brimpsfield village green

The village is recorded in Domesday Book as Brimesfelde. 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.

The Church of St Michael was built in the 12th century. It is a grade I listed building.

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.

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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