Bramfield

Other current and historical names

Brantfield
Braintfield
Braintfieleld
Brandefelle
Braintfield Brantfield

Parish/Community: Bramfield
District/Borough: East Hertfordshire
County: Hertfordshire
Region: Eastern

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 51°49'23"N 0°7'32"W
Eastings/Northings: 529279, 215494
OS Grid: TL292154
Mapcode Local: GBR J8Y.R1J
Mapcode Global: VHGPF.RFYR

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Bramfield within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Bramfield in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Braintfieleld, or Bramfield, par., in co. and 3½ miles NW. of Hertford, 1609 ac., pop. 249. Thomas ` Becket (1117-70) was rector.

Bramfield in the Domesday Book

A village in Hertford hundred, in the county of Hertfordshire.

- Overlord in 1066: Earl Harold
- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Aki the Dane
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Hardwin of Scales
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Hardwin of Scales
- Taxable Value: 5 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £5 in 1066; £2 in 1070; £4 in 1086
- Households: 10 villagers; 1 slave
- Plough Teams: 1 ¹⁄₂ lord's ploughs; 2 ¹⁄₂ men's ploughs (6 plough lands)
- Meadow: 1 plough
- Woodland: 100 pigs

British Place Names

Bramfield, Hertfordshire

Bramfield is a village in Hertfordshire

Bramfield in historic gazetteers

Bramfield in the Domesday Book