Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BRAMPTON

BRAMPTON, a parish in Blything district, Suffolk; on the East Suffolk railway, 4½ miles NE by N of Halesworth. It has a station on the railway; and its Post Town is Great Redisham, under Halesworth. Acres, 2,002. Real property, £3,316. Pop., 310. Houses, 66. Brampton Hall is the seat of the Rev. G. O. Leman. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £434.* Patron, the Rev. G. O. Leman. The church is good, and there are town lands £42.


(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: Brampton AP/CP       Blything RegD/PLU       Suffolk AncC
Place: Brampton

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