Bramhall is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Hamestan in Cheshire.

Other Settlements in Hamestan

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Bramhall is not securely established from its modern form alone; like many settlement names in the North it likely combines an Old English or Old Norse personal name with a landscape term.

Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Bramhall.

Listed Buildings Near Bramhall

Historic England records 7 listed buildings within about a mile of Bramhall. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

Bramhall War Memorial including memorial garden front boundary wall - 0.55 km
Benja Cottage, Benja Fold - 0.57 km
Crocus Cottage, Benja Fold - 0.58 km
St Michael and All Angels Church - 0.82 km
Old Timbers - 0.83 km
Haybrook - 1.27 km
Moor Farm - 1.29 km

Bramhall Today

Today Bramhall lies within the administrative area of Stockport, and the settlement recorded a population of 17,195 at recent figures. Nine and a half centuries separate that figure from the small rural community the Domesday survey recorded here in 1086.

Read more about modern Bramhall on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:

Norbury - 2.2 km NE
Cheadle - 4.5 km NW
Adlington - 4.5 km SE
Mottram St Andrew - 5.1 km S
Leighton - 6.7 km NE
Hungrewenitune - 7.1 km S

Heritage Around Bramhall

Photographs of churches, listed buildings and monuments in the vicinity, contributed by volunteers to the Geograph project and reused here under a Creative Commons licence.

Images © their respective photographers, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 and reused here with attribution. Photographs depict listed buildings, churches and monuments near this settlement and may show neighbouring villages.

Bramhall in the Domesday Book (1086)