Bramley in the Domesday Book (1086)
Bramley is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Strafforth in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Strafforth
- Adwick [le Street]
- Adwick [upon Dearne]
- Armthorpe
- Aston
- Attercliffe
- Auckley
- Aughton [Hall]
- Austerfield
- Balby
- Barnbrough
- Barnby [Dun]
- Bentley
- Bilham [House]
- Billingley
The Meaning of the Name
The name Bramley is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word lēah, a woodland clearing or glade. The first element is most likely a personal name or an early descriptive term, now difficult to recover with certainty. Taken together the name probably meant something close to ‘a clearing’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Bramley.
Listed Buildings Near Bramley
Historic England records 7 listed buildings within about a mile of Bramley. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- Hellaby Hall - 0.99 km
Grade II
- Bramley Grange Bramley Grange Farmhouse - 0.55 km
- Warren House - 0.77 km
- The Warren - 0.81 km
- Stonecroft - 0.81 km
- 12, Flanderwell Lane - 0.89 km
- Stable Approximately 20 Metres to North East of Hellaby Hall - 1.01 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Bramley
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Bramley:
Bramley Today
Today Bramley lies within the administrative area of Rotherham, and the settlement recorded a population of 7,418 at the 2021 census. Nine and a half centuries separate that figure from the small rural community the Domesday survey recorded here in 1086.
Read more about modern Bramley on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Hellaby - 1.0 km E
- Newhall Grange - 1.4 km SE
- Wickersley - 2.2 km SW
- Hooton Levitt - 3.2 km E
- Maltby - 3.2 km E
- Ravenfield - 3.2 km N
Heritage Around Bramley
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.
© Steve Fareham · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Richard Croft · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© emily gosse · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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.
Data derived from the Open Domesday project (opendomesday.org), based on the Domesday Book dataset compiled by Professor J.J.N. Palmer and team. The Domesday Book (1086) is in the public domain.
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