Brasted

Other current and historical names

Briestede

Built-Up Area: Brasted
Parish/Community: Brasted
District/Borough: Sevenoaks
County: Kent
Region: South East

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 51°16'35"N 0°6'38"E
Eastings/Northings: 547324, 155167
OS Grid: TQ473551
Mapcode Local: GBR LLH.YN2
Mapcode Global: VHHPQ.V5XP

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

Brasted in historic gazetteers

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

Brasted, hundred, par., and vil. with ry. sta., W. Kent, on the river Darent, 4 miles NW. of Sevenoaks -- hundred and par., 4449 ac., pop. 1292; P.O. The seat of Brasted Park adjoins Sundridge vil.; it was inhabited by Napoleon III.

Brasted in the Domesday Book

A village in Westerham hundred, in the county of Kent.

- Overlord in 1066: Archbishop of Canterbury Christ Church
- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Abbot Alnoth
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Archbishop of Canterbury
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Haimo the sheriff (subinfeudated)
- Taxable Value: 1 ¹⁄₂ geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £10 in 1066; £10 in 1070; £17 in 1086
- Households: 24 villagers; 16 smallholders; 15 slaves
- Plough Teams: 2 lord's ploughs; 12 men's ploughs (10 plough lands)
- Woodland: 80 swine render
- Churches: 1
- Mills: 2, value £1 3/12

British Place Names

Brasted, Kent

Brasted is a village in Kent

Brasted in historic gazetteers

Brasted in the Domesday Book