Bramshaw, Wiltshire, England

Bramshaw is 12 miles SW of Salisbury, the South West corner of Wiltshire, and 6 miles NW of Lyndhurst (Hampshire). Grid ref SU268154. Post code SO43 7LA. Part of it was in Wiltshire and part in Hampshire until 1895, when the Wiltshire part was transferred to Hampshire.

Modern map of the area - link to Multimap

Church Records

Information and links for indexes including a complete marriage index for Wiltshire are in a page on church records and indexes .

Indexes to registers of the parish church of Bramshaw
(the original registers are at Hampshire Record Office
BTs are at WSRO)

IGI Chr 1597-1812 batch C054311,
Mar 1597-1638 and 1656-1812 batch M054311
The Ring Marriages 1592-1835
Wiltshire Index Service Burials 1800-1837

There is a key to abbreviations and explanation of format of this list common to all parishes.

Description and Travel

Description in 1868:

"BRAMSHAW, a parish chiefly in the hundred of Redbridge, in the county of Southampton, but partly also in the hundred of Camden and Cadworth, in the county of Wilts, 6 miles to the N. of Lyndhurst, its post town. It includes the hamlets of Brook and Fritham. The living is a vicarage* in the diocese of Salisbury, value £161, in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Salisbury. The church is an ancient structure, dedicated to St. Peter. It is said to have been founded at the period of the Conquest, but its original character has been lost through modern alterations. Bramshaw House is one of the chief residences."
"FURZLEY, a hamlet in the parish of Bramshaw, county Wilts, 11 miles S.E. of Salisbury."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003, please respect the conditions of use.]