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Brampton
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Brampton St Peter
Brampton is located in Norfolk
Brampton
Brampton
Area 4.78 km2 (1.85 sq mi)
Population 162 (2001 census)
191 (2011)
• Density 34/km2 (88/sq mi)
OS grid reference TG213231
Civil parish
  • Brampton
District
  • Broadland
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town NORWICH
Postcode district NR10
Police Norfolk
Fire Norfolk
Ambulance East of England
EU Parliament East of England
List of places
UK
England
Norfolk
52°46′N 1°17′E / 52.76°N 1.28°E / 52.76; 1.28

Brampton is a small village and parish in the county of Norfolk, England, in the Bure Valley, east of Aylsham.

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 derives from the Old English for a farmstead or village with abundant shrubs or bushes.

In the Domesday Book, Brampton is recorded of consisting of 30 households owned by William of Warenne and Ralph of Beaufour.

Brampton's St. Peter's Church is one of the 124 surviving round tower churches in Norfolk with a Fifteenth Century octagonal tower addition. The church was significantly remodelled during the Victorian era.

Transport

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

War memorial

Brampton War Memorial is located in St. Peter's Churchyard and is a granite cross. It bears the following names for the First World War:

  • Private Herbert C. Bircham (d.1917), 2nd Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment
  • Private Richard M. Patrick (1897–1917), 1st Battalion, Essex Regiment
  • Private John F. Vincent (1882–1918), 101st Company, Labour Corps
  • Private Albert V. Spinks (1898–1917), 11th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment
  • Private William Bircham (d.1915), 1/5th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment
  • Private Percy W. Watts (d.1917), 1/5th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment
  • Private Leslie E. Watts (1895–1916), 7th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment
  • Private Reginald J. R. Abel (1897–1916), 9th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment
  • Private John H. Bircham (1883–1915), 9th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment
  • Driver Allan C. Self (1889–1918), 18th Ammunition Column, Royal Field Artillery

And, the following for the Second World War:

  • Driver Geoffrey A. Martins (1920–1944), Royal Army Service Corps
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