Bramshaw, Wiltshire Family History Guide
Bramshaw is an Ancient Parish partly in Hampshire and partly in Wiltshire.
Other places in the parish include: Amberwood Cottage, Fritham, Eyeworth Walk, Eyeworth Lodge, and Castle Malwood Walk.
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1597
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1597
Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Adjacent Parishes
- Bramshaw, Hampshire
- Plaitford
- East Wellow
- Landford
- No Man’s Land
- Minstead, Hampshire
- North Eling, Hampshire
Parish History
Bramshaw
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
BRAMSHAW, a parish in the district of New Forest, and counties of Hants and Wilts; 5 miles SSW of Dunbridge r. station, and 6½ NNW of Lyndhurst.
It includes the hamlets of Fritham and Furzley; and has a post office under Lyndhurst. Acres, 3,560. Real property, with West Wellow, £3,194. Pop., 746. Houses, 167. The property is subdivided. Bramshaw House is a chief residence. The Hants portion, amounting to 1,960 acres, is all in the New Forest.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £161. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Salisbury. The church is a neat, ancient, modernized structure, said to have been built by the Conqueror; and has a square, brick, ivy-clad tower.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Furzley
Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales Circa 1870
Furzley, a hamlet in Bramshaw parish, Wilts; 12 miles SE of Salisbury.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
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Administration
- County: Wiltshire
- Civil Registration District: New Forest
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) and the Archdeaconry of Salisbury
- Diocese: Salisbury
- Rural Deanery: Amesbury
- Poor Law Union: New Forest
- Hundred: Cawden and Cadworth
- Province: Canterbury