Brampton Bierlow in the Domesday Book (1086)
Brampton Bierlow appears in the Domesday Book of 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 Brampton Bierlow is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word tūn, a farmstead or village. 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 farmstead’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Brampton Bierlow.
Listed Buildings Near Brampton Bierlow
Historic England records 9 listed buildings within about a mile of Brampton Bierlow. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- Rainborough Lodges and Gates - 1.2 km
Grade II
- Brampton Hall - 0.24 km
- School house and attached school room at Brampton Ellis Junior School - 0.37 km
- Christ Church - 0.78 km
- Beech House, 214 High Street, West Melton - 0.8 km
- Highfield Farm - 0.83 km
- United Reformed Church - 0.92 km
- Barn to the north of Nos 143 and 145, Melton High Street - 1.01 km
- 131-133, Melton High Street - 1.05 km
Brampton Bierlow Today
Today Brampton Bierlow lies within the administrative area of Rotherham, and the settlement recorded a population of 4,921 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 Brampton Bierlow on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Eldeberge - 0.0 km N
- West Melton - 1.0 km E
- Wath upon Dearne - 2.2 km SE
- Toftes - 2.8 km NW
- Wombwell - 2.8 km NW
- Newhill - 2.8 km SE
Heritage Around Brampton [Bierlow]
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.
© Pat Cresswell · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© David Wilkinson · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Steve Fareham · 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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