Brampton, Norfolk

Brampton
St. Peter's Church, Brampton
Brampton Location within Norfolk
Area	4.77 km2 (1.84 sq mi)
Population	199 (2021)
• Density	42/km2 (110/sq mi)
OS grid reference	TG213231
Civil parish	Brampton
District	Broadland
Shire county	Norfolk
Region	East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	NORWICH
Postcode district	NR10
Dialling code	07824
Police	Norfolk
Fire	Norfolk
Ambulance	East of England
UK Parliament	Broadland and Fakenham

Brampton is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk.

Brampton is located 2.4 miles (3.9 km) south-east of Aylsham and 10 miles (16 km) north of Norwich.

History

Brampton was the subject of an archeological excavation in the 1960s which revealed the existence of a Roman bath house and almost 140 pottery kilns.

Brampton's name is of Anglo-Saxon origin and derives from the Old English for a farmstead or village close to a thicket of broom.

In the Domesday Book, Brampton is recorded as a settlement of 30 households in the hundred of South Erpingham. In 1086, the village was part of the estates of William de Warenne and Ralph de Beaufour.

During the Sixteenth Century, Oxnead Hall was built within the parish on Medieval foundations by Clement Paston. It is possible that King Charles II was entertained in the hall by Robert Paston, Earl Yarmouth.

Brampton is home to a Seventeenth Century red-brick farmhouse called Brampton Hall.

Geography

According to the 2021 census, Brampton has a population of 199 people which shows a slight increase from the 191 people recorded in the 2011 census.

Brampton is located in the Bure Valley, and the River Bure marks the northern border of the parish.

Brampton Station is an intermediate halt on the Bure Valley Railway.

St. Peter's Church

Brampton's parish church is dedicated to Saint Peter and is one of Norfolk's 124 remaining round-tower churches. The church dates back to the Twelfth Century and has been Grade II listed since 1961. The church tower had further additions made in the Fifteenth Century and there was a significant restoration effort in the Nineteenth Century. There are notable Medieval bronze figures which show several members of the Brampton family.

Governance

Brampton is part of the electoral ward of Buxton for local elections and is part of the district of Broadland.

The village's national constituency is Broadland and Fakenham which has been represented by the Conservative Party's Jerome Mayhew MP since 2019.

War Memorial

Brampton's war memorial is located in St. Peter's Churchyard and takes the form of a granite cross. The memorial lists the following names for the First World War:

Rank	Name	Unit	Date of Death	Other Commemoration / Burial
Dvr.	Allan C. Self	Royal Field Artillery att. 18th Infantry Brigade	21 Oct. 1918	Gaza War Cemetery
Pte.	Herbert C. Bircham	2nd Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment	2 Mar. 1917	Thiepval Memorial
Pte.	Richard M. Patrick	1st Battalion, Essex Regiment	23 May 1917	Norwich Cemetery, Norwich
Pte.	John F. Vincent	101st Company, Labour Corps	20 May 1918	Mont-Huon Military Cemetery
Pte.	Albert V. Spinks	11th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment	4 Oct. 1917	British Cemetery, Duisans
Pte.	William Bircham	1/5th Battalion, Norfolk Regiment	12 Aug. 1915	Helles Memorial
Pte.	Percy W. Watts	1/5th Bn., Norfolk Rgt.	21 Oct. 1917	Haydarpaşa Cemetery
Pte.	Leslie E. Watts	7th Battalion, Norfolk Rgt.	15 Feb. 1916	Communal Cemetery, Lillers
Pte.	Reginald J. R. Abel	9th Battalion, Norfolk Rgt.	18 Oct. 1916	Bancourt British Cemetery
Pte.	John H. Bircham	9th Bn., Norfolk Rgt.	26 Sep. 1915	Loos Memorial

And the following for Second World War:

Rank	Name	Unit	Date of Death	Other Commemoration / Burial
Dvr.	Geoffrey A. Martins	Royal Army Service Corps	26 Jan. 1944	St. Peter's Churchyard, Brampton