Place:Bramfield, Hertfordshire, England

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Bramfield is a village and civil parish in the East Hertfordshire District of Hertfordshire, England. Nearby settlements include Hertford, Waterford and Stapleford. Bramfield's church is dedicated to St. Andrew.

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Bramfield from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:

"BRAINTFIELD, Brantfield, or Bramfield, a parish in the [registration] district and county of Hertford; near the river Beane, 3½ miles NW of Hertford {railway] station. Post Town: Hertford. Acres: 1,540. Real property: £1,807. Population: 191. Houses: 45. The property is divided among a few. Braintfield Place is the seat of the Brasseys. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester. Value: £267. Patron: Abel Smith, Esq. The church is good. Thomas à Becket was rector."

Bramfield was a detached parish in the Cashio Hundred which covered, for the most part, parishes further west. (See the outline map on the Cashio Hundred page.) By the 19th century it was in the Hertford Registration District and Poor Law Union, administrations covering a much more local area than Cashio. It was part of the Hertford Rural District from 1894 until 1974 and is now considered to be in East Hertfordshire.

Research Tips

• Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies, Register Office Block CHR002, County Hall, Hertford SG13 8EJ. Indexes and Catalog
• GENUKI on Hertfordshire (individual parishes covered separately)
• Hertfordshire Family History Society
• The hundred of Cashio: Introduction as provided by British History Online in the Victoria County History of Hertfordshire, volume 2, pp 319-322
• The parish of Bramfield ibid, volume 2, pp 343-345
• Ordnance Survey map of Hertfordshire 1900 provided by A Vision of Britain through Time
• Ordnance Survey map of Hertfordshire 1944 provided by A Vision of Britain through Time