Bramley is a is a village and civil parish in the English county of Hampshire. It has a village shop, bakers, estate agents, pub (The Bramley Inn) and a railway station. Also, Bramley Camp houses an Army facility where military training and manoevers take place.

Contents

1 History 2 Location 3 Local Government 4 See also

History

Evidence of Bramley's first inhabitants can be found in Bullsdown Camp, a prehistoric settlement, where remnants of flint-scrapers, a spear-head, a core and flint-flakes have been found. This is thought to be a late Celtic "triple-walled dun". This fortification can still be seen today.

The Romans occupied Calleva Atrebatum, today known as Silchester, and their occupation spread as far as Bramley given by evidence in a Romano-British Villa.

The railway line between Reading and Basingstoke was built through the village in 1848. However, the village had to wait another 47 years until on 1 May 1895 a station in the village opened, at the insistence of the Duke of Wellington (a relative of the Wellington who fought and defeated Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815) a prominent landowner in the area. During 1935 parts of the film 'The Last Journey' were shot on the railway within the village.

Location

Bramley is located ten miles south of the large town of Reading, and five miles north of Basingstoke.

Grid reference: SU655593 (http://getamap.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/getamap/frames.htm?mapAction=gaz&gazName=g&gazString=SU655593)

Nearby towns and cities: Basingstoke, Reading, Tadley

Nearby villages: Mortimer, Silchester, Sherfield on Loddon

Nearby places of interest: Silchester Roman Town

Local Government

Bramley is a civil parish with an elected parish council. Bramley falls within the area of Basingstoke and Deane District Council and of Hampshire County Council and all three councils are responsible for different aspects of local government.

See also

• List of places in Hampshire
• List of civil parishes in England