Brimpsfield is a village and civil parish in the Cotswold district, in the county of Gloucestershire, England.[3]
The village is recorded in Domesday Book as Brimesfelde.[4] Brimpsfield Castle was built in the village during the Norman period. The manor of Brimpsfield was granted to Maurice de Berkeley in 1339 by King Edward III.[5]
The Church of St Michael was built in the 12th century. It is a grade I listed building.[6]
A fictional Brimpsfield is the home village of Peter and Abby Grant in the 1970s BBC TV series Survivors; it is shown to have a railway connection to London.
References
- ^ "Parish population 2021". Retrieved 4 July 2024.
- ^ "Location of North Cotswolds". parliament.uk. Retrieved 26 January 2025.
- ^ "Parish council". cotswold.gov.uk. Retrieved 26 January 2025.
- ^ H.C. Darby; G.R. Versey (2008). Domesday Gazetteer. Domesday Geography of England. Cambridge University Press. pp. 148–149. ISBN 0-521-07858-X.
- ^ Douglas Richardson; Kimball G. Everingham (2004). Plantagenet ancestry: a study in colonial and medieval families. Royal ancestry. Genealogical Publishing. p. 260. ISBN 0-8063-1750-7.
- ^ "Church of St. Michael". National Heritage List for England. Historic England. Retrieved 30 October 2019.
External links
Media related to Brimpsfield at Wikimedia Commons
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