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Brimpton Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Brimpton

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Brimpton history

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Evidence of Bronze Age inhabitation of Brimpton is in five round barrows right leading up to the border with Baughurst, Hampshire. Iron Age and Roman settlements have also been identified within the parish. The Domesday Book of 1086 lists the village as “Brintone”, and identifies Robert FitzGerald and Ralph de Mortimer as the lords of the manors of Shalford and Brimpton respectively. A mediaeval bronze steelyard weight was found in the garden of the old moated house at Brimspton Manor.

Social history

St. Peter’s almshouses for married couples and aged widows were erected by Anne Bankes, then 1st Countess of Falmouth, who by her will left £3,000 for their repair, maintenance and inmates’ support. Each inmate received a small pension of a fifth of a pound a week, with an extra payment at Christmas and Easter.

Lords of the Manor

At the time of Edward the Confessor, Brimpton Manor was owned by Godwin, Earl of Wessex (Edward’s father-in-law) It was later owned by Ralph de Mortimer and, subsequently, his son Hugh. The manor passed through marriage to the Earldom of March and the manor was inherited by Richard, Duke of York.

Toponymy

One suggested origin of the name of Brimpton comes from “Brynni’s Town”; Brynni was an Anglo-Saxon owner of the land. A more likely explanation is that the name comes from a Saxo-Celtic version of “Hill Town”; the Celtic word for hill being “bryn”.

Brimpton geography / climate

Brimpton is in the West Berkshire district, east of Newbury and south of the Kennet and Avon canal and A4 road. The east of the village is part of the Wasing manor Estate in Wasing and the village has a few outlying farms with a large minority of its land made up of the sloped woods. The Enborne forms the southern then the eastern boundary between slopes of an escarpment.

Amenities

Brimpton Airfield, a mile east of the village cluster, is a 500-metre soft (grass) runway with light aircraft. Forge Stores — a charity shop Ruth Mills Therapies.

You can visit Brimpton places with Walkfo Brimpton to hear history at Brimpton’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Brimpton has 39 places to visit in our interactive Brimpton map, with amazing history, culture & travel facts you can explore the same way you would at a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout Brimpton, being in the moment, without digital distraction or limits to a specific walking route. Our historic audio walks, National Trust interactive audio experiences, digital tour guides for English Heritage locations are available at Brimpton places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Brimpton & the surrounding areas.

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39 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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Best Brimpton places to visit

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Brimpton has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Brimpton’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Brimpton’s information audio spots:

Aldermaston Court Aldermaston Court is a country house and private park built in the Victorian era for Daniel Higford Davall Burr. It is south-east of the village nucleus of AlderMaston in the English county of Berkshire. The predecessor manor house became a mansion from the wealth of its land and from assistance to Charles I during the English Civil War.

Wasing Wasing is an agricultural and woodland village, country estate and parish in West Berkshire, England owned almost wholly by the descendants of the Mount family. In minor local administration its few people convene their own civil parish occasionally.

Wasing Wood Ponds Wasing Wood Ponds is a 13.5-hectare (33-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south of Aldermaston in Berkshire. The ponds are special for their range of Odonata.

River Enborne River Enborne rises near the villages of Inkpen and West Woodhay, to the West of Newbury, Berkshire and flows into the River Kennet. Despite the name, the river does not run through the village of Enborne, although it does run through Enborne Row.

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