In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Bramshott like this:
BRAMSHOTT, a village and a parish in the district of Farnborough, and county of Hants The village stands near the verge of the county, 1½ mile NW of Liphook r. station, and 4. W of Haslemere; and has a post office under Liphook. The parish is intersected by the Guildford and New Portsmouth railway; and includes the hamlet of Liphook, which has a head post office Acres, 6,676. ...
Real property, £5,543. Pop., 1,367. Houses, 280. The property is divided among a few. Foley House is the seat of J. Greig, Esq. Many hundreds of Roman coins were found, in 1741, in the bed of Woolmer pond, 1½ mile W of Liphook. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £785.* Patron, Queen's College, Oxford. The church is cruciform and early English; has a central tower, partly Norman; and contains two interesting brasses.
Bramshott through time
Bramshott is now part of East Hampshire district. Click here for graphs and data of how East Hampshire has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Bramshott itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Bramshott in East Hampshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/2232
Date accessed: 06th June 2024
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