Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BRAISHFIELD, or Brashfield

BRAISHFIELD, or Brashfield, a chapelry in the parishes of Mitchelmersh, Romsey, and Hursley, Hants; on the Anton river, and the Andover railway, 3½ miles N of Romsey r. station. It was constituted in 1855: and it has a post office under Romsey. Pop., 452. Houses, 100. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £50.* Patron, the Rector of Mitchel mersh.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Hampshire AncC
Place names: BRAISHFIELD     |     BRAISHFIELD OR BRASHFIELD     |     BRASHFIELD
Place: Braishfield

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